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  • READ THIS BOOK: FEBRUARY 2018

    READ THIS BOOK: FEBRUARY 2018

    Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty or administration to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our February recommendation is offered by Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life. Dean Steele recommends Ecowomanism:… Read More

    Feb. 13, 2018

  • Rattling Bones: A Eulogy for Dale P. Andrews

    Rattling Bones: A Eulogy for Dale P. Andrews

    JANUARY 16, 2013- Martin Luther King Commemorative Program, Elon University (photo by Dan Anderson) RATTLING BONES Eulogy for Dale P. Andrews Emilie M. Townes 27 September 2017 Vanderbilt Divinity School Ezekiel 37:1-14 pastoral prayer if we die while being faithful, then death is not the end of life this redaction from an interview dale gave in 2011 was repeated many times on facebook and other social media in the days shortly after he died it was taken from a longer interview he did with faith and leadership—a resource from leadership education at duke divinity school in that interview, he talked about balancing the pastoral and the prophetic as an ongoing challenge for the church and the specific question he was responding to was: What about those leaders in the church who may say, “Well, social justice is a goal, but we are trying to keep our organization together, trying to keep it healthy, trying to keep it alive”? How do those two issues intersect? Read More

    Oct. 26, 2017

  • READ THIS BOOK: September 2017

    READ THIS BOOK: September 2017

    Fernando F. Segovia Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our September recommendation is offered by Fernando F. Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity. Professor Segovia recommends Requiem for the American Dream by… Read More

    Sep. 6, 2017

  • WATCH THIS FILM: March 2017

    WATCH THIS FILM: March 2017

    Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book or other artistic or literary work they are currently engaging in their scholarship. Our March recommendation is offered by Dave Perkins, Associate Director of the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program. Dr. Read More

    Mar. 16, 2017

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare… Read More

    Jan. 31, 2017

  • Reflections on the Women’s March

    Reflections on the Women’s March

    Over the Inauguration Weekend, many Vanderbilt Divinity students and alumni participated in Women’s Marches across the country. We invited participants to reflect theologically on their experience and how it connected to their experience at VDS. If you have photos or reflections from the Women’s March that you’d like to share,… Read More

    Jan. 25, 2017

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare… Read More

    Jan. 24, 2017

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare… Read More

    Jan. 17, 2017

  • Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Alumni/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt

    Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare… Read More

    Jan. 9, 2017

  • READ THIS BOOK: January 2017

    READ THIS BOOK: January 2017

    Professor Joerg Rieger Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our January recommendation is offered by Joerg Rieger, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of Theology. Professor Rieger recommends Transcending… Read More

    Jan. 8, 2017