‘Vanderbilt Divinity School’
VDS Events: Monday Forum
Oct. 6, 2013—by Amy E. Steele, Assistant Dean for Student Life In the common life of the Vanderbilt Divinity School community, there are three standing events that occur each week: the Monday Forum, the Wednesday Community Worship Service, and the Friday Coffee Hour. Each event begins at 10:10 a.m. and provides opportunities for faculty, staff, students, and friends...
Feature: VDS Student Jonathan Edward Carle
Oct. 2, 2013—Every two years, Dr. Douglas Meeks leads students on an immersion trip to England. The trip involves extended stays in Oxford, Bristol and London and is concentrated on the Wesley historical sites. British church historians and church leaders lecture on Wesleyan and Methodist history and the group visits sites of contemporary British Methodist ministries to...
VDS Events: The Cole Lectures
Sep. 29, 2013—Philanthropist Edmund W. Cole, president of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and treasurer of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, endowed the annual Cole Lecture Series in 1892 “for the defense and advocacy of the Christian religion.” Cole’s gift provided for the first sustained lectureship in the history of Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Divinity School is...
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...
VDS Events Week of 9.22.13
Sep. 22, 2013—Good afternoon. Each Sunday, VDS Voices will reflect on different events hosted by the Divinity School. We will share excerpts from lectures, descriptions and the history of many of our reoccurring events. Orientation for incoming students at Vanderbilt Divinity School is always a significant event in our common life. This year we began orientation activities...