Vanderbilt Divinity School

Vanderbilt Divinity School is pleased to announce: Herbert Marbury has been granted promotion with tenure from Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible on the tenure tract to Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible with tenure effective the beginning of the spring semester 2014. photo credit D. Lashae'        … Read More

This is the second in a three part series of sermons delivered during the Academy of Preachers by academy members James W. Dennis, Lauren McDuffie and Shantell Hinton. For the second year in a… Read More

Kap Sum and friends played a gig last week at B.B. King’s. The band consisted of 7 people, 6 from the Divinity School. The songs included pop, covers, love songs, and 2 original compositions form Dr. Perkin’s “Songwriting from a Theological Perspective.” The crowd received us well, and we had… Read More

The journey to divinity school has been a long, winding road spanning nearly twenty years. I first felt the call to ministry in 1995 through a class meditation in a required course on religion. Through a series of choices and by learning to hear the Divine voice… Read More

Although I am a published songwriter and music publisher with an SESAC affiliation, eventually the business of music on “Music Row” offered more than I could endure. While I realize that my journey to Vanderbilt from 16th to 21st Avenue is one measured in a lifetime rather than any perceptions… Read More

“I believe in God Who made everything in heaven and on earth Including me. Full Deaf and made In the image of God…” –Hannah Lewis[1] The World Health Organization reports nearly 360… Read More

VDS Staff members (L to R): Amy Steele, Marie McEntire and Angela Dillon (photo by M. Bukowski) School is over! Making joyful merriment With one another. Haiku by Viki Matson Director of Field Education… Read More

Anthony Fatta, MDiv’12 Associate Pastor Los Gatos UMC Some say that laughter is the best medicine. I believe them.   Los Gatos United Methodist Church If you would have told me when I began my studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School in 2009 that I would… Read More

Field education supervisors hear it all! As they mentor and guide divinity students in their field education contexts, they hear about the doubts as well as the accomplishments, the fears that sit alongside the confidence, the worries that keep folks up at night. Every week, supervisors take an hour out… Read More

Dean Emilie Townes and Joshua DuBois 12.4.13   Joshua DuBois, Former White House Director of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke at the Vanderbilt Divinity School on Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Addressing an audience of students, faculty and staff, and Nashville community members, Mr. DuBois read excerpts from his book… Read More