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Anthony Fatta, MDiv’12 Associate Pastor Los Gatos UMC Some say that laughter is the best medicine. I believe them.   Los Gatos United Methodist Church If you would have told me when I began my studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 2009 that I would… Read More

Field education supervisors hear it all! As they mentor and guide divinity students in their field education contexts, they hear about the doubts as well as the accomplishments, the fears that sit alongside the confidence, the worries that keep folks up at night. Every week, supervisors take an hour out… Read More

by Rhonda Siggers, MDiv2 When I was a child, my grandmother traveled the world.  I remember vividly two trips she took.  The first was her trip to Hawaii from which my gift was a hula skirt that I attempted to wear to school as clothing.  The… Read More

  Rainbow cake at LGBTQI Life to celebrate the end of National Coming Out Week National Coming Out Week is full of celebrations around National Coming Out Day, October 11.  This tradition began with the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 1987.  Organizers… Read More

  Elaine Pagels delievers the 2013 Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt Divinity School The 2013 Cole Lectures were delivered on October 3-4 by renowned scholar Elaine Pagels, author of Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation. In her first lecture titled “Art, Music and Politics… Read More

In 2009, Vanderbilt Divinity School received a commitment of $5,000 per year for five years to provide opportunities for students to engage in learning and experiences to enhance global understanding. Small focused awards are made on an annual basis to students who, through proposals submitted to the Academic… Read More

On Saturday, September 21, 2013, the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies held the first social justice forum of the 2013-2014 academic year. The Divinity School was honored by the presence of visiting scholar Obery Hendricks, author of The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary… Read More

This weeks feature is an article by Darria Hudson, 3rd year MDiv photo by Rodrigo Jardon The School of Authentic Journalism began in 2003 as the brainchild of Al Giordano, founder of NarcoNews. Giordano started NarcoNews in 2000 to report on the drug war to the English speaking world,… Read More

HSP (Hispanic Summer Program) is an annual, ecumenical, itinerant program, where a few of the extant Latin@ faculty in theology & religion come to teach one course each, so that graduate students from all over the country can come and study under one from several Latin@ faculty – more often than… Read More

For 138 academic years, voices from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, the School of the Prophets, have called people to become agents of change. In previous years, the students, faculty, and staff of the Schola Prophetarum shared their stories through print medium. Today modern technology allows these… Read More