Interviews

  • INTERVIEW:Bonnie Miller-McLemore on practical theology

    INTERVIEW:Bonnie Miller-McLemore on practical theology

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Bonnie Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, about the new book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, which she edited and to which she contributed the introduction. Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More

    Apr 23, 2012

  • INTERVIEW:Melissa Snarr on the living wage movement

    INTERVIEW:Melissa Snarr on the living wage movement

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Melissa Snarr, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Divinity School and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society, about her new book, All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement. Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More

    Apr 6, 2012

  • John McClure on Mashup Religion

    John McClure on Mashup Religion

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews John McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship, about his new book Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention. Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More

    Jan 27, 2012

  • Daniel Patte on Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity

    Daniel Patte on Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Daniel Patte, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, about the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on iTunes Previous interviews      … Read More

    Aug 22, 2011

  • Library hosts radio interviews

    Library hosts radio interviews

    Holly Tucker, associate professor of French who teaches in the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, was a guest on WYPL’s “Book Talk” to discuss Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution. Also, on the same program, Robert Talisse, professor of philosophy, and Scott… Read More

    Jul 14, 2011

  • Robin Jensen on early Christian baptism

    Robin Jensen on early Christian baptism

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, about her book Living Water: Images, Symbols, and Settings of Early Christian Baptism. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on iTunes Previous interviews… Read More

    May 25, 2011

  • Listen: The Revelation of Imagination

    Listen: The Revelation of Imagination

    <img style="float:left; margin-right:15px;" src="http://news.vanderbilt.edu/files/W.Franke-picture1.bmp" alt="" width="180" height="120" / Listen to an interview with William Franke, professor of Comparative Literature, Italian and Religious Studies, speaking about his book, ”The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante.” Interviewed by Chris Benda, Divinity School librarian.(more)… Read More

    Dec 16, 2010

  • Two professors on an Islamic ecological fable

    Two professors on an Islamic ecological fable

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, and Richard McGregor, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, about their book The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn. Listen to the interview now or… Read More

    Nov 22, 2010

  • Sociology professor on Israeli birthright tourism

    Sociology professor on Israeli birthright tourism

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviewed Shaul Kelner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies, about his book Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on iTunes!… Read More

    Sep 10, 2010

  • History professor interviewed on African American preachers and politics

    History professor interviewed on African American preachers and politics

    Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviewed Dennis Dickerson, James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History, about his books African Methodism and Its Wesleyan Heritage: Reflections on AME Church History and African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on… Read More

    Jul 27, 2010