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Every four years, scholars and students in North American join across institutions to discuss the study of Syriac language and culture. The North American Syriac Symposium, held since 1991, brings together the brightest in the field to discuss topics related to the language, literature and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, extending chronologically from the first centuries C.E. to the present day. … Read More

As part of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, President John Adams approved the following statement: “The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Yet that didn’t mean Christianity wasn’t influential during the Revolutionary era, and the relationship between religion and… Read More

For Chaplain (Captain) William Dykes, ministry is a shared experience of entering fully into the lives of the people he serves. Dykes is a student in the Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Doctor of Ministry in Integrative Chaplaincy program and an active-duty Army chaplain in the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The… Read More

“Friends, graduates, this now is part of your calling. I hope you will form communities of compassion in an age of outrage,” said Bishop William McAlilly to the 60 graduates and hundreds of guests at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Commencement. McAlilly is a retired Bishop of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference… Read More

Learn about the outstanding graduates chosen as each school's Founder's Medalist recipients for the Class of 2026 Read More

Meador has integrated ethics into the daily life of clinical departments at Vanderbilt Health. Under his direction, the center expanded its reach across specialties, establishing programs in surgical ethics, pediatric ethics and maternal-child health. Read More

This spring, Jaydra Hamid applied for a fellowship that would organize, catalog and digitally preserve materials from Vanderbilt Divinity School’s long-running Antoinette Brown Lectures, which bring distinguished women theologians to campus each year to speak on concerns for women in ministry. Read More

“Your leadership is tied to what you can imagine,” said Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture Jaco Hamman when addressing a room of faith leaders, alumni and faculty at a recent Vanderbilt Divinity School community breakfast. Hamman also serves as the director of the program in theology and practice… Read More

Thinking of getting an advanced degree? Graduate, professional students give their best advice. Read More

Graduate and professional students share how they've become more of the person they want to be while at Vanderbilt. Read More