By 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...
Read MoreBy Anita Peebles [This sermon was preached on Friday, October 25, 2014 at the Nashville Regional Festival of Young Preachers held at Belmont University.] Luke 10:25-37 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Parable of the Good Samaritan In late January 2012, I found myself in a little tiny car...
Read More[This sermon was preached by Niger A. Woodruff, on September 2, 2014 in Wightman Chapel, Scarritt-Bennett Center. Rev. Woodruff is the Assistant Director of Admissions and Vocational Discernment at Vanderbilt Divinity School] Romans 13: 8 - 14 For the glory of the Living God; the One who...
Read MoreBy Emily Johnson I’m totally guilty of it. I have an iPhone where I get news updates straight on my phone. I subscribe to a daily e-newsletter that presents 5-7 news topics in a summarized, quirky and fun-to-read format, all before 7 AM. My Twitter is...
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