VDS Voices

by Amy Elizabeth Steele, MDiv’00, PhD’12 Assistant Dean for Student Life Vanderbilt University Divinity School What is Community Worship? Stained glass windows, American flags, and funeral home fans—these are not the accoutrements… Read More

We have our first photo submitted by alumna, Blair Tolbert, MDiv’10. Thank you for sharing! Core members of L’Arche ATL, along with House Coordinator, Rev. Jessica Bridges MDiv’10, visited LaGrange College. They discussed with students a new understanding of diversity and… 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

by Katye Stone, MDiv3 and co-chair of OWC For the past three academic years, the Office of Womyn’s Concerns (OWC) has offered a yoga class to the Vanderbilt Divinity School community. During the fall semester, the class is conducted each Friday afternoon for an hour, beginning… Read More

VDS Voices Friday photo submitted by Dan Joranko, Lecturer. Candlelight Climate Vigil on Sunday, October 13 at Scarritt-Bennett Center. Sponsored by Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light, Interfaith Earth Care Network, and Scarritt-Bennett Center. Another larger vigil is being planned for April, 2014. Do you have a photo to share… 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

The Howard L. Harrod Lecture was established to honor Harrod, the Oberlin Alumni Professor of Social Ethics and Sociology of Religion, who taught for more than 30 years at Vanderbilt. Harrod worked extensively in environmental ethics and activism and was an advocate for new ways of understanding the relationships of humans… Read More

Our first Friday Photo was submitted by a VDS student! Thank you Sarah Porter, M.Div. Dec ’14, for this fantastic photo! If you would like your photo to be considered for the VDS Voices blog, please email your jpgs to michelle.bukowski@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Ellen Armour's door decorated for National Coming Out… 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 year, Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University, presented the  Cole Lectures. This photo is from her lecture, “Art, Music, and Politics in the Book of Revelation.” Cole Lecturer Elaine Pagels, speaks from the main pulpit as she delivers… Read More