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Vanderbilt Divinity School celebrates the induction of Dean Yolanda Pierce, Professor Victor Anderson, and Professor Lisa Thompson into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers and Laity, Collegium of Scholars this week. The honor is part of the 41st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers… Read More

A trailblazing educator whose vision has shaped generations of African American religious leadership and an eminent historian of Christianity are the 2025 Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion Distinguished Alumni/ae. Nominated by their peers, mentors and community members, the Rev. Forrest Harris, MDiv’83, DMin’91, is this year’s recipient… Read More

Alicia Henry: Patterns RELIGION IN THE ARTS AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AND THE KELLY MILLER SMITH INSTITUTE ON BLACK CHURCH STUDIES PRESENT: ALICIA HENRY: PATTERNS. RUNS JANUARY 31 – MARCH 14, 2019 GALLERY HOURS MONDAY: 12:30 – 2:30 PM; TUESDAY: 9 – 11 AM; WEDNESDAY – 12:30 – 2:30 PM; THURSDAY: 12:30 – 2:30 PM OPENING RECEPTION:  THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,… Read More

Check out this new article from GDR Ph.D. student Ludwig Noya: Abstract: Recent interpretations of the Sabbath rest concept in the Hebrew Bible tend to highlight its humanitarian aspect. However, in this paper, I aim to nuance this claim by attending to a rarely discussed Sabbath text in Nehemiah 13. Read More

Check out this new article co-authored by Priscila Silva and Joerg Rieger Abstract: The first generation of Latin American liberation theologies was marked by the methodological status of the preferential option for the poor. In the following generations, this commitment was further developed in the struggle for a new… Read More

Divinity School Commencement Celebration. Delivered by Dean Emilie Townes, Emerita May 12, 2023 each year, i am reminded that you and i (and countless others) are often called to ministry in the midst of the senselessness of our worlds now some folks would say that this is depressing a downer somewhat despairing… Read More

  I remember the morning vividly, it was Friday, June 24th. I received a very disturbing text message from a 28-year-old trans man. He was petrified at the overturning of Roe v. Wade and was desperately scrambling to find some modicum of security or safety. We talked about so many things that… Read More