By Caroline Adams A few days ago, I had the opportunity to attend a round table panel discussion at Vanderbilt University on the role of arts in theological education. Represented on the panel were professors of art and religion from most of the local institutions of...
Read MoreBy Marie Campbell Mapped into a landscape with multiple petroleum companies, the “Nations” neighborhood reminds me a little bit of home. I grew up in a small town in Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, sandwiched between a shutdown General Electric plant, a paper...
Read MorePhoto credit: http://www.mossandstonegardens.com/blog/moss-trending-the-signature-of-all-things-by-elizabeth-gilbert/ By Chandra Allen On the second Monday in November, 14 women gathered for More Than A Book Club at Scarritt Bennett Center. We were discussing The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. The Signature of All Things is a novel about the search...
Read MoreBy Suha Ahmad Alsyoufi Finding the best language to help people talk about racism isn’t easy. How can we have a productive dialogue when words such as people of color, minorities, cultural groups, institutional racism or white privilege are words that can make us feel vulnerable? Racism...
Read MoreBy Jaime Zito In the third grade, my favorite place in the world was my school library. I went to a small charter school, so all of the buildings were just “portables” and the library could only fit about ten bookcases, a small table, and a...
Read MoreBy Jackie L. Halstead Scarritt Bennett Center is offering training in the ministry of spiritual direction. It is a fifteen-month program that involves reading, two residencies on campus, supervision of direction, and writing. The spiritual direction program is founded on contemplative traditions and directed by Randy Harris...
Read MoreBy Steve Gateley Scarritt Bennett Center is a campus with many diverse activities! Of course, it’s a place where folks stay in one of our many campus housing units for pleasure or as a guest attending programing either on campus or possibly off. And yes, I...
Read MorePhoto credit: The Nutrition Post (www.thenutritionpost.com, Oct. 2013) By Chandra Allen “The obstacles that stand in the way of better health for women are not primarily technical or medical in nature. They are social and political, and the two go together.“ Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization,...
Read MoreBy Suha Ahmad Alsyoufi Preaching can feel very heavy to me. Not the message but the responsibility of it. To have to deliver a message that is meant to inspire people spiritually and provide insight makes me nervous and there are not many things that have...
Read MoreBy Joyce D. Sohl “Something about a song is nearly irresistible in that it reaches both the mind and the heart, the former with meaning, the latter with beauty.” Kay Collette The music of Christmas indeed can be, and often is, irresistible. It can evoke laughter or...
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