My First Year Experience – Joy Bronson

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…

Posted by Michelle Bukowski on December 16, 2015 in First Year Experience, Master of Divinity, Master of Theology, ministry, Nuns on the Bus, Phillis I. Sheppard, second-career student, United Methodist Church, Vanderbilt Divinity School

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READ THIS BOOK Roundup April 2015

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Here is a roundup of the faculty and their recommendations from the 2014 – 2015 academic year.               March 2015 Evon Flesberg, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and…

Posted by Michelle Bukowski on April 12, 2015 in Read This Book, Amartya Sen, American Religious History, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, counseling, culture, D.N. Premnath, Dawne Moon, Ellen Armour, Evon Flesberg, Feminist Theology, gender, Heather Walton, Hebrew Bible, Herbert Marbury, History of Christianity, Islamic Studies, James Hudnut-Beumler, Pastoral Theology, Paul Lim, Phillis I. Sheppard, psychology, Read This Book, reading, religion, Religious Studies, Sherry Turkle, Siddarth Kara, Stephanie M. Crumpton, Ted A. Smith, The Carpenter Program, Vanderbilt Divinity School, VDS Faculty

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January READ THIS BOOK

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our January recommendation is offered by Phillis I. Sheppard, Associate Professor in Religion, Psychology, and Culture. A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence by Stephanie M. Crumpton, Palgrave Macmillan (2014) This past Fall…

Posted by Michelle Bukowski on January 11, 2015 in Read This Book, healing, Phillis I. Sheppard, Read This Book, reading, Stephanie M. Crumpton, United Church of Christ, Vanderbilt Divinity School, VDS Faculty, women

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