https://www.buzzsprout.com/2034701/12323513 In Episode 17 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith has a conversation with womanist colleague the Rev. Dr. Angela N. Parker. Dr. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Decatur, GA. We discuss how Dr. Parker became a womanist biblical scholar and her wonderful book If … Continue reading Beyond the Womanist Classroom, Ep. 17
Remains of Formerly Enslaved People Resting Beneath a Strip Mall
As the US continues to wrestle with who has the right to create knowledge and define history, artifacts continue to resurface regarding its painful past. One example is the way that the "bones" or remains of formerly enslaved people were often discarded and are now being located in unusual places. Seeing our ancestral remains as … Continue reading Remains of Formerly Enslaved People Resting Beneath a Strip Mall
Racial Gaslighting in a Non-Racial France
Scholars on the margins often struggle with their methodological approaches. We often have a dual goal - to be validated by the wider Academic Guild while also seeking to be true to the communities represent. Seeking and creating theoretical frameworks may even include borrowing colloquial expressions and frameworks such as "gaslighting." In essence, gaslighting is … Continue reading Racial Gaslighting in a Non-Racial France
Unbow Your Heads, Sistahs: Leveraging Strength from the Margins
"Without community, there is no liberation." - Audre Lorde We had our first seminar! We want to extend our sincere thanks to the respondents and to all those who attended. Our first seminar was on March 14th, from 6-7 pm, British Standard Time. (Please note that the US changed to Daylight Savings Time but Britain … Continue reading Unbow Your Heads, Sistahs: Leveraging Strength from the Margins
It’s finally here – our first seminar for 2023!
Today's seminar will focus on academic resources that will support religious academics, students of religion (such as parish ministers), and activists. We'll see you, 6-7:30 pm, BST. See the website for the link.
Deconstructing the Methods Used to Sideline Black Women
This video of Toni Morrison demonstrates her own analysis of White Supremacy in the US and its viscious impact upon us all. How is it that Black women in Religious Leadership are often sidelined - even within their own communities? (See the LA Times article, "Black Women Trying to Reach Pulpits Face Resistance," or "Tempered … Continue reading Deconstructing the Methods Used to Sideline Black Women
Call for Papers – Special Issue with the African Journal of Gender and Religion
Please submit abstracts by April 1st for our special issue for The African Journal of Gender and Religion. Our issue, "Black Women's Radical Religious Faith Traditions" will accept abstracts until April 1st, 2023. Check our website for more info.
New Book Release – We Are All Witnesses
We Are All Witnesses is a remarkable, sassy, creative, disruptive, and deeply personal textbook. It is like no other text on biblical interpretation. Smith and Newheart have produced a groundbreaking milestone book about how to do biblical interpretation that prioritizes justice and the reader’s context.
New Book Release – Bitter the Chastening Rod
Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved.
Mitzi J. Smith, PhD., to Present March 23 Anna Julia Cooper Lecture
Candler’s Black Church Studies Program will welcome Mitzi J. Smith, J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, as distinguished guest speaker for the 2023 Anna Julia Cooper Lecture on March 23 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Misogynoir to Mishpat Research Network 