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Asbury, university chaplain at
Vanderbilt. Bev, as he is known to
old friends from his hometown of
Elberton, Ga., has been widely
recognized for his efforts on behalf
of religious tolerance, respect and
diversity.
In 1985, Chaplain Asbury re
ceived The Humanitarian Award,
a one-time award given by the
Southern Region of Hadassah. He
was also selected by “Nashville”
magazine in 1985 as one of the
city’s top 50 “shapers and drea
mers, 1965-85.”
Educated at the University of
Georgia and Yale Divinity School,
Bev Asbury has continued to study.
In 1979 he attended an Israel Study
Seminar and has done independ
ent study on the Holocaust in
Israel during the summers of 1980
and 1982.
In 1985, Bev Asbury brought
together an amazingly impressive
group of speakers for the series
entitled “Holocaust, Hiroshima,
and Hope.” Included were Elie
Wiesel, David S. Wyman (author
of “The Abandonment of the Jews:
America and The Holocaust 1941-
1945,”) Sen Albert Gore Jr., and
Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock’s sub
ject was “Raising Children After
Hiroshima.”
The program of another year
examined survival: “the capacity
of men and women to live beneath
the pressure of protracted crisis
and emerge sane, alive and still
human.” Survivor Alex Gross of
Atlanta and Dr. Terrence Des Pres,
author of “The Survivor: An Anat
omy of Life in the Death Camps”
were featured speakers.
“From Healer To Killer: The
Doctors of Auschwitz” was the
address by Yale professor of psy
chiatry Robert Jay Lifton in 1980.
Other years the series has looked at
expressions of the Holocaust in
literature, art, and music as the lec
tures pursue from every angle the
consideration of the Nazi calcu
lated horror and its implications
for today and tomorrow.
Bev Asbury’s Christian back
ground and training, his small town
upbringing, seem a surprising pre
lude to his present dedication and
sensitivity to this burden of the
Jewish experience. That assump
tion belies his searching intellect,
human empathy, and truly reli
gious convictions.
When questioned as to when his
consciousness of the Holocaust was
first aroused, Bev Asbury answers
from both historical and psycho
logical perspectives. He recalls when
a young German refuge came to
live with a Jewish family in Elber
ton during World War II. He and
some friends made jokes about the
young man’s name. Bev’s mother
took her son aside and said, “Do
you know what is happening to his
people?” That was a lesson he has
long remembered.
Then as a young chaplain at
Vanderbilt he went through a per
sonal crisis of divorce. In the
mourning process over the break
up of his first marriage, Bev Asbury
says he began to look at how to
deal with loss and death and trag
edy. This led him to his study of
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the Holocaust, his trips to concen
tration camp sites, and to Israel. It
also has involved him in teaching
“Death, Religion & Human Mean
ing” in the Department of Reli
gious Studies and “Death, Dying
& Bereavement” in Vanderbilt
Medical School.
In September he hosted a lecture
and discussion by Rabbi Irving
Greenberg of the National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leader
ship. The purpose of this first Inter
faith Encounter program was to
look at Judaism and Christianity
as Covenants of Life, to examine
their inter-relatedness, and to en
courage openness, learning and re
spect of each other.
Bev Asbury pushes open doors
to understanding within his aca
demic community and the greater
Nashville community. Whether he
talks of issues of race, women, or
religion, he challenges listeners to
stretch their perceptions, to ques
tion tired prejudices, and to look at
new possibilities of belief and be
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