VDS Voices

The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership presents a lecture series each year, inviting provocative and wise women and men to present lectures and talks on topics relevant to issues of moral leadership in the professions and beyond. On September 12, the CTP welcomed Canon Andrew… Read More

Every two years, Dr. Douglas Meeks leads students on an immersion trip to England. The trip involves extended stays in Oxford, Bristol and London and is concentrated on the Wesley historical sites. British church historians and church leaders lecture on Wesleyan and Methodist history and the group visits sites of… Read More

Philanthropist Edmund W. Cole, president of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and treasurer of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, endowed the annual Cole Lecture Series in 1892 “for the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion.” Cole’s gift provided for the first sustained lectureship in the history of Vanderbilt University. Read More

This weeks Friday Photos is courtesy of Priscila Dorcas Mojica and features 3rd year MDiv student, Lora Andrews, reading to, Adelani, daughter of 3rd year MDiv, Alba Onofrio, in the VDS Reading Room. Read More

HSP (Hispanic Summer Program) is an annual, ecumenical, itinerant program, where a few of the extant Latin@ faculty in theology & religion come to teach one course each, so that graduate students from all over the country can come and study under one from several Latin@ faculty – more often than… Read More

Good afternoon. Each Sunday, VDS Voices will reflect on different events hosted by the Divinity School. We will share excerpts from lectures, descriptions and the history of many of our reoccurring events. Orientation for incoming students at Vanderbilt Divinity School is always a significant event in our common life.  This… Read More

Every Friday, we plan to share the best photo of the week. For our Friday Photo of the week debut of, we chose a photo from the Installation of our beloved new Dean, Emilie M. Townes. Professor Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Dean Emilie M. Read More

For 138 academic years, voices from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, the School of the Prophets, have called people to become agents of change. In previous years, the students, faculty, and staff of the Schola Prophetarum shared their stories through print medium. Today modern technology allows these… Read More