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Vanderbilt Divinity School

Community Events and Continuing Education Calendar
Spring 2008

Community Breakfast          
January 24, 2008
Vanderbilt Divinity School Refectory
7:30  – 8:30 a.m.

Graham Reside
Executive Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions

“Project Pyramid: Religion and the Business of Alleviating Poverty”

The Divinity School holds a fundamental commitment to seeking justice and extending God's care in the world.  Recently, students from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt, inspired by the work of people like Muhammed Yunus, have been focusing on applying business strategies to improve the lives of those at the bottom of the pyramid.  Drawing on the interests and expertise of both schools, this course sought to bring together moral and theological imagination with practical and innovative strategies for alleviating poverty, building on the shared concerns of students for an ethically informed and effective approach to a fundamental challenge with both local and global significance.

Community Breakfast          
March 13, 2008
Vanderbilt Divinity School Refectory
7:30  – 8:30 a.m

Alice W. Hunt
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

“Strangers, Aliens, Residents, and Walls:  The Bible and Immigration”
 
Immigration issues remain hot topics during this election cycle.  What does the Hebrew Bible have to do with immigration? Do people of God have a particular responsibility?  We will examine how the Hebrew Bible can speak on this issue today.

Relevant Religion Series                 
March 25, April 1, 8, 2008

Brad R. Braxton
Associate Professor of Homiletics and New Testament

and

Forrest E. Harris
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ministry and Director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies

“African American Preaching and Worship: New Trends and Time-Honored Traditions”

This set of workshops will examine creative approaches to preaching and worship in African American Christianity. The conversation will focus on the newly-launched African American Lectionary. The African American Pulpit, a leading ministry journal, has formed a partnership with Vanderbilt Divinity School to create the first online, interdenominational lectionary specifically for African American churches. This lectionary, which includes a variety of innovative biblical and theological resources, can enrich persons from different backgrounds in the quest to promote more culturally-inclusive, justice-oriented preaching and worship.

Antoinette Brown Lecture  

Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:00 P.M.
Benton Chapel
Vanderbilt University Divinity School      
              
"Islam, Gender, and Change"

to be delivered by
Amina Wadud, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Starr King School for the Ministry
Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of World Studies

Benefactor Sylvia Sanders Kelley, B.A. ’54, established this annual lectureship in 1974 to .commemorate the life of the first woman in the United States to be ordained to the Christian ministry.  The Antoinette Brown Lecture Series brings to Vanderbilt distinguished female theologians and church leaders who address concerns relating to ministry and the study of religion.

Community Breakfast

Location:
Vanderbilt Divinity School Refectory
411 21st Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240

Information and Registration:
Click here for more information and online registration.
(615) 936-8453

Cost:
$10 per person

Relevant Religion Series

Location for Spring 2008:
Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church
1203 9th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37208

Information and Registration:
Click here for more information and online registration.
 (615) 936-8453

Cost:
$10 per person
CEUs available

Programs and Conferences

Kelly Miller Smith Institute Black Church Studies
Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
(615) 936-8453