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We Walk to Remember
Mar. 27, 2015—Please join the members of the Tau Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi and the Vanderbilt community Monday, March 30, for a walk in silence to enhance Holocaust awareness and eradicate anti-Semitism. The walk is intended as an expression of solidarity and support following a vandalism incident on the Vanderbilt campus in which three swastikas were...
Good Friday Service
Mar. 27, 2015—At the conclusion of Holy Week, OUCRL will be coming together in Benton Chapel for a short service in honor of Good Friday. Entitled, “The Seven Last Words: Seven Readings and Seven Prayers”, University Chaplain Rev. Mark Forrester and Assoc. University Chaplain Rev. Gretchen Person will lead the service on Friday, April 3rd in Benton...
Gender & Violence Panel
Mar. 18, 2015—Project Dialogue is proud to collaborate with Vanderbilt Interfaith Council to bring a discussion that is very timely as well as needed for our campus. Unfortunately, our campus has been brought painfully aware of the violence that underlies at so many universities, including our own. As we all strive to understand and reduce the violence...
Food & Faith
Mar. 16, 2015—Project Dialogue is excited to work in collaboration with Vanderbilt Muslim Student Association (MSA) and Canterbury CIRCLE to host a wonderful dialogue over a meal at St. Augustine’s Chapel on March 25th. Have you heard of “Halal” food but didn’t know what is was? Have you wanted to know what makes food permissible for Islam...
VU Welcomes new UKIRK Chaplain!
Mar. 16, 2015—Welcome! OUCRL is excited to welcome our new UKIRK Presbyterian Chaplain to Vanderbilt! Rev. Lindsey Groves has come to Vanderbilt to lead our Presbyterian fellowship UKIRK. Come by her office at OUCRL to welcome her. Learn more about her: I was born in our nation’s capital and I lived in various cities in Florida but...
Barbara Brown Taylor to speak for the Chaplain’s Series
Mar. 15, 2015—Chaplain’s Speaker Series Spring 2015 welcomes Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor Redeeming Darkness: A Spirituality for the Night Times Every life has its share of dark and light. This is what we call “the human condition.” Yet many of our inherited teachings glorify the light, leaving us so fearful of the dark and so well...
Faith in Art!
Feb. 27, 2015—The Vanderbilt Interfaith Council is excited to bring back Faith in Art for 2015. Teaming up with the Vanderbilt Performing Arts Community, the night will be filled with dance, spoken word, song, and creativity. With an amazing catered dinner by Maggiano’s, the night will be filling for all the senses. Celebrating all faith traditions, as...
Touched for the Very First Time: Examining the Cultural, Religious, and Social Constructions of Virginity
Feb. 26, 2015—OUCRL is proud to partner again with Vandy Sex Ed for Sex Ed and Healthy Relationships Week. This year, OUCRL Program Coordinator Mike Zimmerman will partner with Dr. Laura Carpenter, Director of Women and Gender Studies, and Lyndsey Godwin, Assistant Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality to discuss the various views...
Kosher & Halal Food Making Way for Interfaith Dialogue
Feb. 26, 2015—The Office of the University Chaplain and Religious Life partnered with International Student & Scholar Services to host a World on Wednesdays presentation entitled “Kosher & Halal Food Offerings: Making Way for Interfaith Dialogue at the Table.” OUCRL Program Coordinator Mike Zimmerman and Field Education Intern John Compton led the talk on Wednesday, February 26th...
Muslim Student Association Events
Feb. 26, 2015—Guest article written by Musie Yosef. Musie is a junior at Vanderbilt University. Musie was born in Toronto, but has lived in Nashville for the last ten years. He is majoring in Mathematics and Secondary Education. This year I am the interfaith representative of Muslim Student Association. I have been fortunate enough to be...