November, 2014
‘Re-imagining Gender Within the Church’
Nov. 18, 2014—‘Re-imagining Gender Within the Church’ Nov. 20 Alex McNeill, executive director of More Light Presbyterians, a national organization devoted to advocacy, education and support for LGBTQ people and issues within the church and beyond, will speak at a lunchtime event on Thursday, Nov. 20, at Vanderbilt Divinity School. “Re-imagining Gender Within the Church” will be...
October/November Religious Life on Campus
Nov. 18, 2014—Each month, we will take quick note of the various and wonderful events that our various religious organizations have put on throughout campus. Some of the most fundamental and beautiful examples of religious life on college campuses come in the work that our ministries do every week and small events that are put on by...
Food Justice
Nov. 6, 2014— Project Dialogue cosponsored 2 wonderful events in collagoration with the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society, the Cal Turner Program, the Society of St. Cornelius and the Divinity School to bring Dr. Norman Wirzba to speak on his work Food and Faith: a Theology of Eating. There was a breakfast discussion entitled Jesus and...
Chaplains Under Fire
Nov. 6, 2014—Should the military be hiring clergy? Can the military tell them how to act? How does a Christian chaplain minister to a Buddhist? A Muslim? An atheist? To explore these questions, Lee Lawrence and Terry Nickelson spent three months in Afghanistan and Iraq, where troops let them into their lives. They joined them on patrols...
Vanderbilt Interfaith Spring Break Trip
Nov. 4, 2014—Vanderbilt Interfaith Spring Break Trip February 28th – March 5th The Office of the University Chaplain and Religious Life is partnering with the International Student and Scholar Services, and the Interfaith Council to plan Vanderbilt’s first interfaith spring break trip. The purpose of this trip will be to explore the meaning of faith between several...