‘BorderLinks’
The Patron Saint of Lost Causes; Maymester course part 4
Jul. 23, 2014—The Patron Saint of Lost Causes by Kate A. Fields, MDiv2 The painted desert, the Sonoran, home of lumbering Pipe Cacti, coyote, sidewinders, rattlesnakes, mice, owls, eagles, desert primrose, hawks, roadrunners, sunsets that wrap the day up with a bang and towering mountains of the Santa Catalina range. The fragile ecosystem of the Sonoran is disrupted...
VDS Maymester course, Traversing Our National Wound Part 2
Jul. 9, 2014—This past May, twenty Vanderbilt Divinity students and I travelled to Tucson, Arizona, as a delegation under the care of the organization BorderLinks. Vanderbilt Divinity School has partnered with BorderLinks for its last seven delegations, bringing groups of students every other year to Arizona for a week of engagement. Our trip was part of a...
Toward a Celebration of the Fourth of July
Jul. 2, 2014—By Amy E. Steele, MDiv (2000) PhD (2012) “The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times; but his heart may well beat lighter at the thought that America is young, and that she is still in the impressible stage of her existence. May he not hope that high lessons of...
Friday Photo 5.23.14
May. 23, 2014—This weeks Friday Photo is courtesy of Julia Nusbaum, who accompanied our Cross-Culteral Seminar class for a week of learning and reflection along the US/Mexico Border.