Feature Category
Why I Went to Prison
Mar. 11, 2015—This post is written by Eric Brown, an alumnus of Vanderbilt Divinity School who works with the Nashville office of The Children’s Defense Fund where he addresses the challenge of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and serves as an active member of the Re-Visioning Justice Working Group facilitated by the Cal Turner Program for Moral...
Refusing to be Comforted
Mar. 4, 2015—By Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, MDiv Candidate (Originally published in Theology of Ferguson December 27, 2014) A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, for they are no more. —Matthew 2:18 “I want to know what happened to my baby! I want to know...
Woman to Woman
Feb. 25, 2015—Originally posted on Scarritt Bennett blog on December 12, 2014 (http://www.scarrittbennett.org/about/blog/) By Chandra Allen, MDiv ’09 Today, I’m excited to share about one of our programs for women: Woman to Woman. It is one of the most exciting components of my work at the Scarritt Bennett Center. The Woman to Woman program began...
In-forming Communities of Healing
Feb. 11, 2015—by Marcia Mount Shoop, MDiv’96 Surviving sexualized violence resonates with surviving violence of many kinds—especially violence that is personalized, violence that penetrates our flesh, our self-understanding, and our ability to connect with the world around us. Survival skills are idiosyncratic, and they are often wise in ways we can only understand fleetingly. These survival skills can...
Authorial Intentions
Jan. 21, 2015—By Chris Benda, Theological Librarian Authorial Intentions, the Divinity and Graduate Department of Religion faculty interview podcast, turns 5 this year. Thanks to faculty participation, we have 25 podcasts archived. The podcasts give faculty an opportunity to talk about recent publications – typically, a book. This past November, however, Dave Michelson discussed the digital humanities...
Alumni/ae Tuesday: Honoring the Life of Design
Jan. 20, 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....
“We’ve got a problem.”
Dec. 31, 2014—by Graham Reside, Executive Director, Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership in the Professions I’m a middle-aged white guy, who grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada. The son of a minister, I went to church every Sunday, and I’ve heard a lot of sermons in my life. Growing up evangelical, I know the...
VDS Feature: ‘Tis the Season, . . . Hallelujah!
Dec. 24, 2014—Originally posted on December 25, 2013. I am sure I will awaken on this sacred day in awe of God’s glory in humanity through Christ. As I contemplate my unfolding re-awakening through our Advent celebrations, my awe expands in my hopeful but inadequate spirit. For many of us in Divinity School and in churches, Christmas...
Ferguson and Minjung Theology: Intersectionality, Solidarity, and Protest
Dec. 17, 2014— by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, MDiv2 Soon afterwards he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a...
“A Conversion to the Neighbor”
Dec. 10, 2014—by Gabe Horton, MDiv3 A 1970s Aboriginal activist group once issued this challenge to well-intentioned white Australians seeking to help: If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. Marginalia is a student group at Vanderbilt...