New Feature: Alumni/ae Tuesday
Dec. 9, 2014—Have you ever wondered what our VDS and GDR alumni/ae are up to after graduation? We are excited to announce Alumni/ae Tuesday, a new feature that will give you a unique look into the lives of our alumni/ae from their perspective. Our monthly Alumni/ae Tuesday Guest Post series on the VDS Voices blog will highlight posts written by VDS...
VDS Student News 12.3.14
Dec. 3, 2014—By Jonathan S. Radford Reginald Wayne Sharpe, Jr., MDiv2, was ordained on November 5, 2014, by the Greater Travelers Rest Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia, under the leadership of his pastor, Dr. E. Dewey Smith, Jr. Reggie, as friends and family call him, was graduated in 2013 from Morehouse College where he studied religion and philosophy. Reginald’s...
Facing Race
Nov. 26, 2014—RACE “… runners take your mark; get set…” CaPow! Left. Right. Left, right, left, right, left… The FINISH LINE was in sight running… (right, left, right, left…) giving my all running… (right, left, right…) with all my might running… (left, right…) I KNEW I could win running… Right? But running the lane to...
Look who’s blogging!
Nov. 19, 2014—This week we share blogs post of two of our recent graduates, Emily Rowell Brown, MDiv’13 and Monica Weber, MDiv’13. 4 SUREFIRE WAYS TO ATTRACT YOUNG ADULTS TO CHURCH by Emily Rowell Brown Posted November 12, 2014 Spoiler alert: the post title is actually a misnomer. I will not tell you the secret to tripling...
Looking Back at the Beginnings
Nov. 12, 2014—By: Jonathan Radford, MDiv1 Believe it or not, this blog you’re reading right now has been a source for information, enlightenment, and engagement at the Vanderbilt Divinity School and communities around the world for a little more than a year. So, we thought it would be fitting to look back at some of the posts...
READ THIS BOOK November 2014
Nov. 9, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our November recommendation is offered by Ellen Armour, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality. The U.S. may be moving...
Three Questions with Marcia Mount Shoop
Nov. 5, 2014—Vanderbilt Divinity School is partnering with theologian, author, and minister The Rev. Marcia Mount Shoop (MDiv Vanderbilt 1996; PhD Emory University 2003) to explore the how this community can becoming more intentionally attentive and healing around sexual violence and other kinds of abuses of power. For our readers to become acquainted with Rev. Mount Shoop,...
Alumni at the World Series
Nov. 2, 2014—by Sean Everton, MDiv’90, and Julian Wright, MDiv’92 We, Sean Everton, MDiv’90, and Julian Wright, MDiv’92, did not take the most conventional routes to Vanderbilt Divinity School. Everton played minor league baseball and worked as a CPA before enrolling at Vanderbilt. Wright came to VDS through the joint Law and Divinity program. Since rooming together in...
Three Questions with Michelene Pesantubbee
Oct. 29, 2014— Michelene E. Pesantubbee, the Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Indian Native Studies, University of Iowa, will deliver the 2014 Howard Harrod Lecture, titled Native American Food Culture and the Industrial Food Complex: Bringing Back a Bison-Based Diet, on Thursday, November 6, 2014. For our readers to become acquainted with Professor Pesantubbee, we asked...
Friday Photo 10.24.14
Oct. 24, 2014—On Saturday, October 18th, the Department of Homiletics and Liturgics hosted Afrofuturism in Black Theology. This eventful symposium was filled with a panel discussion, and presentation of papers by religious scholars, artists, theologians, and critical thinkers in the field of religion, gender, sexuality, the Black Church, and Afrofuturism. The featured guest was Mr. George Clinton (Parliament...