BorderLinks

  • The Patron Saint of Lost Causes; Maymester course part 4

    The Patron Saint of Lost Causes; Maymester course part 4

    The Patron Saint of Lost Causes by Kate A. Fields, MDiv2 Sunset in the Sonoran The painted desert, the Sonoran, home of lumbering Pipe Cacti, coyote, sidewinders, rattlesnakes, mice, owls, eagles, desert primrose, hawks, roadrunners, sunsets that wrap the day up with a bang and towering mountains of… Read More

    Jul. 23, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    VDS Maymester course, Traversing Our National Wound Part 2

    This past May, twenty Vanderbilt Divinity students and I travelled to Tucson, Arizona, as a delegation under the care of the organization BorderLinks. Vanderbilt Divinity School has partnered with BorderLinks for its last seven delegations, bringing groups of students every other year to Arizona for a week of engagement. Read More

    Jul. 9, 2014

  • Toward a Celebration of the Fourth of July

    Toward a Celebration of the Fourth of July

    By Amy E. Steele, MDiv (2000) PhD (2012) “The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times; but his heart may well beat lighter at the thought that America is young, and that she is still in the impressible stage of her existence.  May… Read More

    Jul. 2, 2014

  • Friday Photo 5.23.14

    Friday Photo 5.23.14

    This weeks Friday Photo is courtesy of Julia Nusbaum, who accompanied our Cross-Culteral Seminar class for a week of learning and reflection along the US/Mexico Border. Read More

    May. 23, 2014