Religion

Amy-Jill Levine recalls twice being approached by "nice, silver-haired Protestant women" who had never met a Jewish person. They wanted to know where she had had her horns removed. Read More

On a recent Monday morning, the halls of the Student Life Center at Vanderbilt University rang out with the sound of the Jewish community marking the end of Yom Kippur. Read More

Local religious leaders and interested members of the public are invited to conversations with Vanderbilt University researchers on Christianity and the environment on Saturday, Sept. 30. Read More

On the recent fifth anniversary of 9/11, Americans faced anew a choice between fear and compassion. Five years have passed since that bright blue, cloudless, horrific morning. Since then it has become a truism to say that American life has changed unalterably. In the coming weeks, politicians and pundits will pontificate about how 9/11 changed American life. But a prior, more basic question will remain unasked: Why should that day change the very fabric of our common life? Should heightened security concerns corrode our national character? Must it lessen who we are? Read More

As chair of the Democratic Party in Smithville — not to mention choir director of the First United Methodist Church — Faye Fuqua generally knows what's going on around town. Read More

Reflections from the Mexican-United States border by members of the Vanderbilt University community who spent a week traveling the area open the fall semester of community programming offered by Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, a peace activist and former visiting professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, died April 12 at his Vermont home. He was 81. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark delivered the final lecture in a four-lecture series March 28 at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. Read More

U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., church leaders, Vanderbilt scholars and others will discuss the role of the black church in public policy activism during a three-day conference sponsored by the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

"Sexuality, Spirituality and Religion: What's the Connection?" is the topic of the Rev. Debra W. Haffner's talk presented as Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture on Tuesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. Read More

Catholic theologian James Alison, who has been called "one of today's most lucid and exciting writers on our relationship with the divine," will deliver two lectures at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 23, and Friday, Feb. 24. Read More

Nations have attacked, conquered and occupied other nations throughout history. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark, who debunks the notion that Christianity has held back scientific progress in his new book, will preview a new project about why religions succeed or fail during a lecture series at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to provide insight on 2005's top stories, including the ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein, Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush's appointments to the Supreme Court, the bankruptcy of two major airlines and more. Read More

Christians looking to "save" Christmas from creeping secular humanism by threatening lawsuits should give some thought to what the central figure of the holiday would make of the controversy, says John Thatamanil, assistant professor of theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Encouraging greater public participation in government at all levels — from a variety of political and religious viewpoints — is a goal of a three-part community course that begins Oct. 17. "Reviving Democracy: Religion, Politics and the Practice of Hope" will be taught by Ted Smith, director of the Program in Theology and Practice at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Read More

Two professors from very different academic disciplines come together Sept. 29 to discuss how faith and politics play increasingly important roles in the work of women activists. Read More

Christian women are looking to the Virgin Mary for inspiration as they move to expand their leadership within the church, says a Vanderbilt University theologian who has organized a Mary conference on April 13 and 14. Read More

Interfaith activist and filmmaker Ruth Broyde-Sharone will bring her most recent documentary, God and Allah Need to Talk — a Film for Healing and Reconciliation, to Vanderbilt University Tuesday, April 5. Read More

Vanderbilt University will become the center of an ongoing conversation about the friction and connections between science and religion with the help of a grant from the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science in Philadelphia. Read More