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The Change-Maker Fellowship is an academic-year leadership program through the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements designed to equip undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, skills and grounding to create social change through nonviolent direct action. The JLI Change-Maker Fellows held their first… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School will celebrate Reunion Weekend on October 16-17, 2026. From emerging topics in AI, to explorations of friendships over 40 years in the making, to student-led interfaith worship, join us for a weekend highlighting the ways in which Divinity education continues to be a rigorous and relevant… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity Library has launched a comprehensive redesign of its Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) website, fully integrating this database of more than 7,000 religious images with the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) platform to support digi... Read More

Every four years, scholars and students in North America 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… 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