Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benton Chapel, dedicated in 1959, at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Thursday, July 6, 2023. "The Word of God" window is ...

Womanist theologian Yolanda Pierce will be the next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. Pierce, a Century columnist, is currently the dean at Howard Divinity School—the first woman to lead the ...

Pastor Dawn Bennett in her church, The Table, in downtown Nashville. (Harrison McClary/Vanderbilt University) Dawn Bennett has found paths to servant leadership throughout her life, but it was decades ...

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded Vanderbilt University School of Divinity a $250,000 grant, VU officials have announced. The Divinity School will use the grant, among other moves, to hire a director ...

Vanderbilt University School of Divinity has named Howard University academician Yolanda Pierce as its next dean. According to a release, Pierce will succeed Dr. Emilie Townes, who is stepping down ...

Almost two years ago, Yolanda Pierce moved to Nashville to become dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School. This was and is intensely good news. Pierce is an activist scholar, an accomplished ...

The bitter fight that has split Nashville’s Vanderbilt University since the expulsion of Negro Divinity Student James M. Lawson Jr. for promoting sit-in demonstrations finally simmered down last week.

Yolanda Pierce starts as new dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School, succeeding Emilie Townes after a decade-long tenure. As a more progressive interdenominational theological school in the ...

(RNS) — ‘I look forward to building on the strong foundation that Emilie Townes and others have established to form this treasured community,’ Pierce said. (RNS) — The Rev. Yolanda Pierce, dean of ...