Three Questions with Daniel Siedell
Apr. 1, 2015—Daniel A. Siedell is an art historian, critic, and author of God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. Mr. Siedell will deliver a special lecture, “Thinking Theologically about Modern & Contemporary Art”, at Vanderbilt Divinity School on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. For our readers to become acquainted with Mr. Siedell, we asked him to respond to...
Carpenter Stands with Dr. Harris and American Baptist College
Mar. 25, 2015—by Lyndsey Godwin, Assistant Director, Carpenter Program Religion, Gender, and Sexuality The Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt Divinity School expresses its support of and admiration for Dr. Forrest Harris, our colleague and President of American Baptist College. Dr. Harris’s decision to invite Bishop Yvette Flunder, Dr. Allen Boesak, and Pastor Delman Coates...
My Chonga Manifesto
Mar. 18, 2015—by Priscila Dorcas Mojica, MDiv3 While at VDS I, like many of us, have been forced to think critically about myself within my context. Amidst this I reclaimed this racialized slur that I had been called before but never really understood why I tried hard to distance myself that said identity, other than to appease others. ...
READ THIS BOOK – March 2015
Mar. 15, 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 Evon Flesberg, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Counseling. This Month’s Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each...
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...
Alumni Tuesday: On Becoming a Missionary
Mar. 3, 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....
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...
READ THIS BOOK February 2015
Feb. 9, 2015—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our February recommendation is offered by James Hudnut-Beumler, Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History. This Month’s Book: Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics...