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Feature: Brian Anthony Cash, MDiv
Oct. 16, 2013—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 Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They...
Friday Photo 10.11.13
Oct. 11, 2013—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.”
Feature: VDS Student, Darriah Hudson
Oct. 9, 2013—This weeks feature is an article by Darria Hudson, 3rd year MDiv The School of Authentic Journalism began in 2003 as the brainchild of Al Giordano, founder of NarcoNews. Giordano started NarcoNews in 2000 to report on the drug war to the English speaking world, to connect the United States and other parts of the...
VDS Events: Monday Forum
Oct. 6, 2013—by Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life In the common life of the Vanderbilt Divinity School community, there are three standing events that occur each week: the Monday Forum, the Wednesday Community Worship Service, and the Friday Coffee Hour. Each event begins at 10:10 a.m. and provides opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and friends...
Friday Photo 10.4.13
Oct. 4, 2013—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 White to the Vanderbilt Divinity School. He presented “Faith...
Feature: VDS Student Jonathan Edward Carle
Oct. 2, 2013—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 contemporary British Methodist ministries to...
VDS Events: The Cole Lectures
Sep. 29, 2013—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. Vanderbilt University Divinity School is...
Friday Photo 9.27.13
Sep. 27, 2013—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.
Feature: VDS Student Priscila Dorcas Mojica
Sep. 25, 2013—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 not for the first, and...
VDS Events Week of 9.22.13
Sep. 22, 2013—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 year we began orientation activities...