Join us for a special four-week Sunday School series led by Dr. Victor Judge, Professor of Theology and Literature at Vanderbilt Divinity School, exploring “Representation of the Immigrant in Contemporary Literature.”

The series will begin by examining the archetype of migration as it appears throughout Holy Scripture—stories of people leaving home, crossing borders, seeking refuge, and encountering God along the way. From there, we will turn to contemporary literature to explore how writers portray the experiences of immigrants, migrants, and displaced people and the questions these stories raise about identity, belonging, home, hospitality, and our responsibility to one another.

Through literature, scripture, and conversation, we’ll consider what these stories can teach us about the immigrant experience and how they might deepen the way we understand our neighbors and our faith.

All are welcome. No previous reading or preparation is required.

Victor Judge serves as the assistant dean for academic affairs and as lecturer in literature and religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School where he teaches courses in the intersections of literature and religion in the canons of William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Flannery O’Connor, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., as well as courses in writing creatively about religion and the films of Terrence Malick.   

A significant role in the forty-seven years of his vocation as an educator is serving in the adult religious education classes in Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Catholic congregations in Nashville. He earned the baccalaureate and graduate degree from Peabody College of Vanderbilt, and he is a parishioner at Christ the King Catholic Church.