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Free and Open to the Public

Location: Benton Chapel (Google map of this location)

"Iyanla Vanzant, Black Women's Spirituality and the Oprah Effect: Straddling and Merging Religious Difference"

Vanderbilt University Divinity School announces the 39th annual Antoinette Brown Lecture to be delivered by Monica Coleman, Ph.D., Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology.

Hosted by: Divinity School


The annual lecture at Vanderbilt University Divinity School was established in 1974 with a gift from benefactor Sylvia Sanders Kelley, BA’54, of Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996, a group of alumni/ae and friends established a permanent endowment for inviting distinguished female theologians and church leaders to the Divinity School where they could address the concerns confronting women in ministry. Previous Antoinette Brown lecturers include Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sallie McFague, Rita Nakashima Brock, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Elizabeth Schüessler Fiorenza, Sharon Welch, Katie Cannon, Letty Russell, Diana Eck, Renita Weems, Kwok Pui-lan, Susan Thistlethwaite, Mary C. Churchill, emilie m. townes, Stephanie Paulsell, Laurel Schneider, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Amina Wadud, Judith Plaskow, and Catherine Keller.

Free parking will be available in Wesley Parking Garage, across the street from the Divinity School on 21st Avenue, South. Parking spaces 1-170 will be available for guests attending the lecture and reception.