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Welcome to VDS
Aug. 19, 2015—Each year, VDS invites returning students to offer words of advice to the incoming class. We hope these stories and lived wisdom will help you navigate your own path at Vanderbilt! Welcome to VDS by Hayley Elliott, MTS2 I can still see how the words looked as I read them and how they felt on my...
READ THIS BOOK – August 2015
Aug. 16, 2015—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our August recommendation is offered by Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of Ethics and Society. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me By Stacey Floyd-Thomas On the first day of every ethics course...
Alumni/ae Tuesday – Sarah Pinson, MDiv’14
Aug. 11, 2015—Our monthly Alumni/ae Tuesday Guest Post series on the VDS Voices blog highlights posts written by VDS and GDR alumni/ae. Hear firsthand about their important work in the community, collaborations with other alumni/ae and faculty, and much more. Be sure to also check out the Divinity School Instagram feed every Tuesday for our Alumni/ae Instagram Takeover Day....
Alumni/ae Tuesday – Karl Plank, MDiv’77, MA ’80, PhD’83
Aug. 4, 2015—Our monthly Alumni/ae Tuesday Guest Post series on the VDS Voices blog highlights posts written by VDS and GDR alumni/ae. Hear firsthand about their important work in the community, collaborations with other alumni/ae and faculty, and much more. Be sure to also check out the Divinity School Instagram feed every Tuesday for our Alumni/ae Instagram Takeover Day....
Alumni/ae Tuesday – Eric Smith, MTS ’02
Jun. 9, 2015—Our monthly Alumni/ae Tuesday Guest Post series on the VDS Voices blog highlights posts written by VDS and GDR alumni/ae. Hear firsthand about their important work in the community, collaborations with other alumni/ae and faculty, and much more. Be sure to also check out the Divinity School Instagram feed every Tuesday for our Alumni/ae Instagram Takeover Day....
Creating Change 2015 – Sherry Brewer
May. 27, 2015—The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change made its home in downtown Denver, Colorado, February 4-8 2015. We had nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attend our five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings and events, and four unbelieveably spectacular plenary sessions. Vanderbilt Divinity students Sara Green, Robles,...
Creating Change 2015 – Robles
May. 20, 2015—The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change made its home in downtown Denver, Colorado, February 4-8 2015. We had nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attend our five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings and events, and four unbelieveably spectacular plenary sessions. Vanderbilt Divinity students Sara...
READ THIS BOOK – MAY 2015
May. 17, 2015—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our March recommendation is offered by Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs. Prayers of a Literary Theologian A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor, edited and with an introduction by...
Creating Change 2015 – Sarah Connette
May. 13, 2015—The 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change made its home in downtown Denver, Colorado, February 4-8 2015. We had nearly 4,000 people from all over the country attend our five-day program that featured over 390 workshops, training sessions, meetings and events, and four unbelievably spectacular plenary sessions. Vanderbilt Divinity students Sara Green,...
Ministering to a Yup’ik Eskimo Community at Eastertime
May. 10, 2015—by Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Mallory Chair of Catholic Studies Back in 2000, while making the annual eight-day silent retreat required of us Jesuits, I found myself moved to offer pastoral service, as my schedule might allow, to Yup’ik Eskimo villages along the Bering Seacoast of Southwest Alaska. I had been a Jesuit (lay) volunteer...