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‘Master of Divinity’

Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience training

Feb. 17, 2016—“This is my symbol of trauma.” I snapped open the blue container containing the mouth guard that my dentist had crafted specifically for my nighttime teeth grinding. After a few explanatory sentences I placed my container on the table and passed the talking stick to the friend on my right side. This exercise, sharing our...

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My First Year Experience – Joy Bronson

Dec. 16, 2015—My experience of my first semester at Vanderbilt University Divinity School has been one of inverted expectation, though (now) beautifully so. I came here as a second-career student, determined to be the scholar that I hadn’t been eight years ago as an undergraduate; I know my purpose for being in school this time around. Unfortunately...

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Alumni/ae Tuesday – Sarah Porter, MDiv’13

Sep. 8, 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....

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Let it go, and Relax

Aug. 26, 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! by Sharah Dass, MDiv2 To the incoming class at Vanderbilt Divinity School, My name is Sharah Dass, and I am from Pakistan. As I started...

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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....

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A Reason for this Season

Sep. 10, 2014—“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” —James Baldwin As a first-year master of divinity student, I entered Vanderbilt University ready to study and participate in the transformation of a world, which I feel, is in much need of healing. I...

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VDS Friday Photo 5.16.14

May. 16, 2014—Congratulations to all of our 2014 Vanderbilt Divinity School Graduates!

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Friday Photo 9.27.13

Sep. 27, 2013—This weeks Friday Photos is courtesy of Priscila Dorcas Mojica and features 3rd year MDiv student, Lora Andrews, reading to, Adelani, daughter of 3rd year MDiv, Alba Onofrio, in the VDS Reading Room.

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Feature: VDS Student Priscila Dorcas Mojica

Sep. 25, 2013—HSP (Hispanic Summer Program) is an annual, ecumenical, itinerant program, where a few of the extant Latin@ faculty in theology & religion come to teach one course each, so that graduate students from all over the country can come and study under one from several Latin@ faculty – more often than not for the first, and...

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