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Two Vanderbilt alumni who have devoted their lives to ministry and service to their communities have been named 2026 Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion Distinguished Alumni/ae. Jennifer Bailey, MDiv ’14, is recognized as the Distinguished Alumna for the Divinity School and Ryan LaMothe, MA ’93, PhD ’94,… Read More

When you imagine depictions of obsessive-compulsive disorder in popular culture, you probably think of cleanliness practices like excessive hand washing. Or maybe you imagine common popular culture tropes of people being a “little OCD” because they like a neat desk or an organized closet. Katie O’Dunne, DMin ’24, is an… Read More

For over 35 years, the Hispanic Scholars Program has provided curricular opportunities at the intersection of religious studies and Latine culture to more than 2,000 students at divinity schools and theological programs across the country. Read More

The Change-Maker Fellowship is an academic-year leadership program through the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements designed to equip undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, skills and grounding to create social change through nonviolent direct action. The JLI Change-Maker Fellows held their first… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School will celebrate Reunion Weekend on October 16-17, 2026. From emerging topics in AI, to explorations of friendships over 40 years in the making, to student-led interfaith worship, join us for a weekend highlighting the ways in which Divinity education continues to be a rigorous and relevant… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity Library has launched a comprehensive redesign of its Art in the Christian Tradition (ACT) website, fully integrating this database of more than 7,000 religious images with the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) platform to support digi... Read More

Every four years, scholars and students in North America join across institutions to discuss the study of Syriac language and culture. The North American Syriac Symposium, held since 1991, brings together the brightest in the field to discuss topics related to the language, literature and cultural history of Syriac… Read More

The Amplify Staff Fellows program is not a lecture series or a passive introduction to technology. It’s a hands-on innovation lab where small cohorts of staff with intermediate or above familiarity with generative AI meet every other week to experiment... Read More

Before boarding a bus for a tour of historic Nashville Civil Rights sites, local community members met at Vanderbilt Divinity School to learn about the School’s history with Civil Rights leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. Director of the James Lawson Institute, Taure Brown, welcomed the participants before setting out on… Read More

As part of the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, President John Adams approved the following statement: “The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Yet that didn’t mean Christianity wasn’t influential during the Revolutionary era, and the relationship between religion and… Read More