Podcast appearances and mentions of Emilie Townes

Vanderbilt University's Divinity School is the only one of its kind in the South. It's liberal and interdenominational, and, under the leadership of Dean Emilie Townes, has only grown its reputation as a theological institution leading in the areas of diversity and social justice. Later this month, Townes will step down as dean. She joins us to reflect on her legacy, and how the Divinity School has changed with Nashville over the past decade. But first, we'll respond to listener feedback in our weekly segment @ us! Guest: Emilie M. Townes, theologian, womanist ethicist, author, ordained Baptist clergywoman This episode was produced by Andrea Tudhope. 

Silhouette Podcast Interview with Emilie Townes 

2/19/23 David helps us celebrate Black History Month by applying Dr. Emilie Townes' womanist ethics and theology to one of the stories of Jesus in the gospels.

In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Pete and Jared talk with Emilie Townes about womanist ethics, interpreting the Bible, and hope. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sermon by Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes For Week 4 of our Sermon Series: "Half Truths" Scripture Reading: Matthew 7:1-5

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Emilie Townes (Vanderbilt University - The Divinity School) and Dr. Valerie Bridgeman (Methodist Theological School in Ohio).  In crisis times, the creative voice speaks to the soul. The scholarly voice does not have to eclipse the creative voice. As published poets and scholars, these womanists will talk about their creative process and its influence upon their scholarship. They will also read original works.

This week's episode features a comprehensive reading of Judges 11 by a few HJD listeners, a creative retelling of the the story of Jephthah's daughter, a lesson from Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018), and a brief moment of gratitude for George Floyd and Darnella Frazier. Books by Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon: https://amzn.to/3v5mR07 (Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community) https://amzn.to/3auFhzs (Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader )(with Dr. Emilie Townes) https://amzn.to/3gtamHJ (Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric)

A conversation from WAY back at the beginning of pandemic and lockdown with world renown spiritual teacher, Kyle Gray. We goof off a lot, but when am I not just kikiing with the girls.  Connect with Kyle's work at KyleGray.co.uk, and across social media @KyleGrayUK. If you like the show become a supporting partner on Patreon. And thanks to our sponsor, Q Christian Fellowship. Join Q Christian Fellowship for their first-ever Virtual Conference happening January 7-10, 2021. Featuring Keynote speakers THE Fr. Richard Rohr, Activist theologian and writer Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, womanist and Black theology icon, Dr. Emilie Townes, and Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth, and more, you'll have the opportunity to hear from and connect with LGBTQ+ Christians and allies from all over the world. Conference is an annual gathering where hundreds of LGBTQ+ Christians and Allies gather for worship, fellowship, workshops, Affinity Gatherings, and experience the fullness of God's love and affirmation through each other. More than a Conference–we're catalyzing a movement. Virtual All Access registration is just $65, making this the most accessible Conference ever. Visit qcfconf.org to learn more and sign up today! USE OFFERCODE TINYREV10 to get $10 off registration! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinyrevolution/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kit and I go back a few years, when her then-husband became a Patreon supporter, and then connected me with his wife who was an editor and ghost writer. She suggested I publish on my own. I said UR CRAZY. But she was right. And she's also begun a journey of her own, which we get into on the pod.  She's the host of Unchurchable, a podcast for folks who don't say a heck yes but a hell no to church. lol.  Connect with her across socials @KitMKennedy, and her website. KitKennedy.com And if you like the show and wanna support it more, please go to my Patreon and learn how to sign up now!  SHOUT OUT TO OUR SPONSORS! Q Christian Fellowship!  Join Q Christian Fellowship for their first-ever Virtual Conference happening January 7-10, 2021. Featuring Keynote speakers THE Fr. Richard Rohr, Activist theologian and writer Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, womanist and Black theology icon, Dr. Emilie Townes, and Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth, and more, you'll have the opportunity to hear from and connect with LGBTQ+ Christians and allies from all over the world. Conference is an annual gathering where hundreds of LGBTQ+ Christians and Allies gather for worship, fellowship, workshops, Affinity Gatherings, and experience the fullness of God's love and affirmation through each other. More than a Conference–we're catalyzing a movement. Virtual All Access registration is just $65, making this the most accessible Conference ever. And if you use code TINYREV10, you'll get $10 off your registration, so literally half of what you spent on that Amazon order yesterday. Visit qcfconf.org to learn more and sign up today! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinyrevolution/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luke Wilson is a PhD candidate in Toronto and he went to LIBERTY UNIVERSITY. The unhappiest place on earth, especially if you are a queer.  Me and Luke get into the dirt of going to Liberty, and ask what it takes for us to truly understand who we are, break free, and move on from toxic beliefs. Follow Luke across social media @LukeSlamDunkWilson on Insta, and @wilson_FW on twitter. And if you like the show, become a sustaining partner on Patreon.  And a HUGE thank you to this week's sponsor, Q Christian Fellowship! Join Q Christian Fellowship for their first-ever Virtual Conference happening January 7-10, 2021. Featuring Keynote speakers THE Fr. Richard Rohr, Activist theologian and writer Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, womanist and Black theology icon, Dr. Emilie Townes, and Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth, and more, you'll have the opportunity to hear from and connect with LGBTQ+ Christians and allies from all over the world. Conference is an annual gathering where hundreds of LGBTQ+ Christians and Allies gather for worship, fellowship, workshops, Affinity Gatherings, and experience the fullness of God's love and affirmation through each other. More than a Conference–we're catalyzing a movement. Virtual All Access registration is just $65, making this the most accessible Conference ever. Visit qcfconf.org to learn more and sign up today! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tinyrevolution/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our conversation with Dean Emilie M. Townes concludes.

Part one of a two-part interview with Womanist theologian Emilie M. Townes.

We invited Emilie Townes on the podcast to talk about womanist ethics but our conversation morphed into so much more. We touched on the role of the Bible in ethics, the relevance of the Bible in our lives today, and why it is important to chose hope. Show Notes → ( https://peteenns.com/interview-with-emilie-townes-the-wisdom-of-hope/ ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-bible-for-normal-people/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Faith Hope and Love During an Election - with Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes, Dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School Learn more about Dr. Townes here: https://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/emiliem-townes Enjoy the entire interview series here: https://compassionatechristianity.org/faith-hope-and-love-during-an-election/

In honor of Black Lives Matter, Sarah, Maeve, and a few friends in ministry discuss the prolific works of Black theologians, including William Barber, James Cone, Katie Geneva Cannon, and Emilie Townes, and theologians of color regarding their impact on our personal theologies. Check out and donate to the Marsha P Johnson Institute, Black Trans Travel Fund, Black and Pink, The Poor People’s Campaign, Faith In Public Life, university-led prison divestment and abolitionist movements, and other grassroots organizations in your area!

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Emilie Townes (Vanderbilt University - The Divinity School) and Dr. Valerie Bridgeman (Methodist Theological School in Ohio).  In crisis times, the creative voice speaks to the soul. The scholarly voice does not have to eclipse the creative voice. As published poets and scholars, these womanists will talk about their creative process and its influence upon their scholarship. They will also read original works.

Reverend Dr. Emilie Townes on Representation, Counter Memory, Toni Morrison, Beloved Community, Ida B. Wells, and Empire. Music by AwareNess, follow him on Instagram, Spotify or Soundcloud.  For more content, follow me on Instagram Please support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timetalks Channel Zero Network: https://channelzeronetwork.com/

Part of "Speak Life: A Sermon Series on the Power of Words" For the 15th Sunday of Pentecost, September 22, 2019 Scripture Lesson: Psalm 137:1-6

Canon Broderick interviewed the Reverend Emilie M. Townes, Ph.D., about the cultural production of evil and what she calls the "ultimate queer, womanist move." Dr. Townes is an African American Christian social ethicist and theologian, and is currently Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School.

In this special collaborative episode, five ordained women come together to lament, confess, celebrate, and ultimately reclaim an embodied and faithful way to move in their professional, spiritual, and personal lives. (VOICED BY PROFESSIONAL TALENT) FULL TRANSCRIPT When women come together there's nothing we cannot do. Welcome to the WellSprings Journal Podcast, where you will hear from women who have been called by God into lives to speak grace and compassion, that share pain and anger, and that dance life's joys and laughter. Inspiration to call forth your creative spirit await. Listen now. 0:39     Lament, Gospel, Response – a collaborative effort by Nannette Banks, Isabel Docampo, Allison St. Louis, Trudy Hawkins Stringer, and Laura Tuach. 0:52     Introduction by Laura Tuach. “The Word became flesh and lived among us.” John 1:14 calls us to embrace the embodiment of God’s grace through Christ. 1:05     This article is a collaborative project. A living, breathing, and evolving endeavor by five ordained women of differing faith communities, differing bodies and stories, differing experiences of the Divine. We are five religious professionals located within the academy, training and supporting the next generation of congregational leaders. We are of Cuban descent, African American descent, Anglo descent, and African and Indian descent. We are deeply faithful women, serving our calls in academia while maintaining our connections to the Episcopal, Progressive Baptist, United Methodist, and United Church of Christ denominations. We are each embodied, fleshy, and beautifully and wonderfully made, reflecting God’s complexity, diversity, and magnificence. Over the past three years, we gathered virtually and in person for mutual professional support and to produce writing that reflects our deepest commitments and beliefs. In this article we lament, confess, celebrate, and ultimately reclaim an embodied and faithful way to move in our professional, spiritual, and personal lives. 2:25     We begin exploring the theme of this issue with lament. As an all-female community of practice, we lament our individual and collective traumas. We tell the truth about the violence inflicted on women’s bodies, bodies of those who are “othered,” and our own bodies. We lament the barrage of images and messages we cannot escape in a culture that worships consumerism and productivity and a prescribed definition of beauty. We lament this injustice and ask for forgiveness for our own complicity in systems of oppression that deny full human expression through the body. We hear the good news that the word became flesh and lived among us. We respond by creating ritual and worshiping together. In this article, we invite you to explore these words of John without divorcing them from your own body and the bodies of the women and girls you minister to. As women of all shapes, colors, sizes, and experiences, we are called to celebrate our bodies and the ways in which the living God is enfleshed in each of us. 3:40     Lament by Trudy Hawkins Stringer -- “But flesh has ambiguous connotations. Indeed, its materiality often carries the weight of sin.” — Mayra Rivera 3:53     How is it that in the Christian tradition we hold the radical claim that God became flesh and dwelt among us, and yet in the same tradition, flesh, as Rivera writes, “carries the weight of sin”? We begin with lament, an ancient practice of weeping and wailing, of grieving loss. Lament as an embodied, communal practice has fallen out of favor, so we turn our mourning inward, silencing it and forcing it to molder in the nether reaches of our bodies. We seek to reclaim lament as a necessary step in remembering our being, calling “flesh, spirit, mind, soul” from the long loneliness of dichotomies of: spirit / flesh, soul / body, mind / body. 4:45     In Enfleshing Freedom, M. Shawn Copeland writes: The ambivalence with which Christian thought focuses on the sex of the matter may be traced to a persistent somatophobia or fear of flesh. This fear stems from a conceptual axis that compounds both distortions of Neoplatonism, with its tendency to idealism, suspicion of ambiguity, and discomfort with matter, and Pauline and Augustinian warnings about flesh and its pleasures. We lament somatophobia entrenched in Christian traditions. We lament all cultural constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and able-ness that encourage exclusion, domination, and violence. 5:34     We lament the violence acted out on bodies—raced bodies, gendered bodies, ethnic bodies, queer bodies, diseased bodies, disabled bodies. We lament masculinities that teach violence and debasement of women and emotional numbness to men. We lament raced identities that construct white supremacy and condone slavery and Jim Crow in old and new iterations.  We lament sexual teaching that denies the sacred worth of human sexuality. We lament the role of religion in creating and perpetuating cultural distortions of flesh. We lament and confess our own complicity, by commission and omission, in cultural, societal, and religious systems that distort, degrade, and commodify flesh. 6:28     We ask forgiveness. We seek to participate in the re-sacrilizing of our flesh: flesh as a source of our knowing and of joy, flesh welcome in worship, flesh necessary for ritual, flesh foundational to sacramental practices of baptism and Eucharist. We seek forgiveness and the collective courage to reimagine flesh as sacred gift. 6:58     Response: Hope in “Isness” by Nannette Banks.  “I CAN’T BREATHE!” the tragically famous last words of Brother Eric Garner, and according to Yale ethicist, the Rev. Dr. Ebony Marshall Turman, declaring his “isness.” As we watch that black male body struggle to survive while being choked to the ground, we hear him proclaim his existence: “I CAN’T BREATHE.” This moment is reminiscent of Malcolm X’s father being tied to active train tracks with the sound of the train’s horn and the blinding light shining on him, shouting, “I AM A MAN!” and the screen goes blank. It is reminiscent of Fannie Lou Hammer rebuffing—without reticence and with clarity—the oppressors with, “I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED!” These are not defeatist statements; instead, they are declarations of “isness,” existence and “I am somebody.” To unapologetically declare your space, place and “isness” as human in the face of hatred, brute force, and injustice is the zenith of resistance; giving no one real power over your being—body or mind. 8:23     Continual blows of dehumanization can leave the being—body and mind—bereft and without hope, unless you know that you exist! It is the spirit of resistance that stirs in us to confront the oppressors’/dehumanizers’ glare and physical force with the fact of our existence and place. Recall Jesus on the cross, declaring his “isness” with his last few words, even while he was being mocked. The embodiment of such gumption and spirit destabilizes governments’; economic, political platforms; unjust systems; privilege; ancestral supremacy; and religion. This very spirit is present in each of our bodies, limbs, “isness,” and declarations. It’s in our showing up and in our very flesh (hard to unravel the two, impossible really)—spirit and flesh together. One without the other leaves a gaping hole of prayers with no protest or protest with no prayers; a gaping hole of embodiment with no sure housing, words with no real meaning, and life with no real point. Again, recall Jesus: the word became flesh! God inhabits/embodies the praises, the declarations of the people. Show up, inhabit, embody, become flesh with your very first, until your very last, word and breath. 10:01   Gospel: Good News by Isabel Docampo. The encounters of Simon, the social outcast and unclean leper, a nameless woman, and Jesus in the Gospel of Mark’s 14th chapter offer good news of the Divine’s transfiguration of oppression to hope. When these three hurting people encounter one another in the Gospel story, they are moved to care for one another’s flesh: their bodily and emotional wounds. Simon offers shelter and fills Jesus’ hungry stomach. The woman offers human touch as she spreads the oil on his head, shoulders, and feet. Jesus, the Divine made flesh, gratefully receives these gifts. Here the Divine is embraced and embraces, crossing the boundaries between Creator and Creature. In the compassionate embrace of the Other’s wounds and pain, these three experience the Divine “touch” that helps them transcend their bodily oppression and move forward in hope! 11:08   The body is the pathway by which we experience the world. The body is an historical receptacle. It carries our ancestors’ stories in its DNA—of intermarriages, diseases, migrations, and the truth of our inescapable biological and cultural hybridity—for survival within political and economic histories. Our perception of our own bodies and that of the Other’s body reveals the marks of these histories on our emotional psyche that is an extension of our body. Latina studies have explored the legacies of colonialism, whose violence on all indigenous bodies (particularly the female body) was enacted to produce “bodily traits” for a perfect economic commodity. Colonialism’s power persists in our subconscious, producing a self-desire for certain bodily traits to the point of masochistic surgeries in a quest for bodies deemed safe and most likely to succeed. 12:12   Emilie Townes says it well: “We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives . . . we live in a time when the disregard for human lives in general is astoundingly sanctioned by a legal system that fails all of us when black and brown and native lives are taken and no one is responsible. ”Ultimately, we are responsible for all of the bodies that we see on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds, and on podcasts, with eyes glazed over by trauma. These bodies are collateral damage in the quest for postcolonial, global economic stability. Categorizing the human body as a commodity remains as much a moral act of oppression today as it was in colonial times. Powerful nations are not helpless, but rather hesitant, to enact new policies and disrupt their geopolitical and economic arrangements. Their hesitancy in the postcolonial reality is counter to our moral imperative as Christians: to love God and love one another as ourselves. Like the nameless woman, we need to get out of the shadows and enter into the space, bravely, and anoint our collective body with oil. 13:34   The good news is that the Divine loves the Creation so much that the Godself chose the limitations of the complex human body. Why? That remains a mystery. Yet our experiences of the flesh help us unravel it. Stories from across the ages tell of life-changing moments when human beings from different groups transcend limitations to commune together for truth-telling, justice, and mercy. In those intimate moments of vulnerability and shared bodily knowledge of pain, power is experienced outside and within the self that engenders inexplicable hope in the face of losing odds. It becomes holy ground as we are able to see in the faces looking back at us that we are love-able. And, so, by loving one another, we begin to be healed so we can love ourselves. 14:32   Biblical references to glory frequently allude to the transfiguration of the ordinary in its encounter with the divine .. . Thus the glory of God is always encountered as flesh … Past relations leave their marks in our bodies … signs of renewal as well as scars. These scars are never absent from our encounters. When we see, hear, or touch the Other, we touch upon the Other’s scars … become transfigured in the divine embrace. Again, and again, and again. We may not fully understand the unconditional love of the Godself choosing embodiment. Nevertheless, we can bear witness that by doing so the Divine’s identity is revealed as one that can never be reduced to historically frozen faith tenets. Instead, the Godself can be many things, and is, and is all things at one time, and is differentiated yet never separated from the Creation. 15:38   The good news is that as children of the Creator, we, too, have multiple identities that we move in and out of, and the Divine delights in our complexity! The good news is that we are differentiated yet tethered to one another without fear. Fear has no place in love; and the Divine loves completely. If God is to be found in the Other . . . ethics becomes a central concern of theology. Theology … shall call us to transform our bodies so that they become capable of embracing without grasping, to transform our eyes to see and ears to hear. Theology shall encourage us to perceive the transcendence of the Other as the glory of God. We are invited to repeatedly encounter the Divine within, between, and beyond us as we reach toward one another to fearlessly re-order life without the categorization and commodification of bodies. We are freed by love to mutually offer and receive shelter, food, and healing oil. Good news, indeed! 16:53   Response: Embodied Ritual by Allison St. Louis. Ritual practices are ways of remembering. Ritual practices can also serve to help communities “re-member.” The following ritual is a call for our bodies to enter into their rightful place in the kingdom come. 17:15   Service of Healing and Celebration of Our Embodiment. Let us give thanks to our Creator God, Who made heaven and earth. Let us give thanks to our Creator God, Who knit us together in our mothers’ womb. Let us give thanks to our Creator God, Whose life-giving spirit dwells in us. 17:36   Scripture Reading: Psalm 139:1-18. O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. 18:38   If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night’, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them—they are more than the sand; I come to the end — I am still with you. 19:42   Litany of Confession and Healing. For forgetting that we are created in your image: Forgive us Holy God. For colluding with cultural standards of beauty and worth: Forgive us, Holy God. For remaining silent about oppression, abuse, and violence: Forgive us, Holy God. With embracing the holiness of our bodies: Gift us, Healer God. With appreciating the beauty of all bodies: Gift us, Healer God. With unrelenting courage to speak up for the voiceless: Gift us, Healer God. 20:21   Closing Prayer: “The Lord’s Prayer.” The Word became flesh! God embodies the praises, the declaration of the people. Show up, embody, become flesh from your very first, until your very last, word! Let us bless the Word become Flesh. Thanks be to God! 20:45   Thank you for listening to the WellSprings Journal podcast. Be sure to visit WellSpringsJournal.org to find more resources for the journey.

In this debut episode of Crafting Theology, SLU professor Michael McClymond speaks with Emilie Townes, dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, about the key experiences that shaped her research in womanist theology and healthcare ethics. This podcast is presented by the Saint Louis University Department of Theological Studies.

Emilie is currently the Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society. This week we chat about Emilie’s life and discernment of her vocation(s) of ministry, teaching and leadership in academia. She’s a pioneer, a visionary, and dare I say - a prophet.

Rev. Rashad Moore is a minister at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, NYC. He grew up steeped in the Baptist church, and came to Abyssinian inspired by their long legacy of fighting for justice and freedom. We discuss his approach to ministry, from the "everydayness" of beloved community, to the challenge of letting go of what's familiar in order to grow, and the necessity of protecting joy in the face of despair. This episode also includes a musical interlude from the Grammy-winning jazz artist, Gregory Porter. Bonus: Download the 'Drop Your Nets' exercise at kamararose.com/resources You can find Rev. Rashad at www.abyssinian.org References: Dr. Emilie Townes, "Everydayness." https://reflections.yale.edu/article/future-prophetic-voice/everydayness-0 Paul and Silas in Prison, Acts 16:16-40 Jesus Calls Fishermen to Drop their Nets, Matthew 4:18-22 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles." https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/circles/ W.E.B. DuBois, 'The Souls of Black Folk.' People Complaining, Exodus 5:1-22, 14:11-12, 15:22, 16:1-4, 17:1-4 Gregory Porter, "Take Me to The Alley." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5z4SbrH20 James Cone, 'The Cross and The Lynching Tree.' Jesus and His Mother, John 2:1-11 and John 19:25

Charlene Galarneau reads from Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil, by Emilie Townes, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2006. "It is what we do every day that shapes us...It is...these acts that we do that say more about us than those grand moments of righteous indignation and action..."

Mickey ScottBey Jones and Tripp interview Emilie Townes and Joerg Rieger for the Theology Happy Hour at the Wild Goose Festival. And just like those who joined live, you can play along at home. Every time they say a word you haven't heard in the last 60 days, take a drink! Joerg and Tripp are up first, talking about Joerg's new book, Unified We Are A Force. Plus, Joerg gives an intro to liberation theology and Gustavo Gutierrez, how Karl Barth was impacted by working class people in Switzerland, and how those with privilege can use it. Then, Mickey and Emilie talk about Emilie's journey in womanist theology, if white dudes can do womanist theology and if not, what should they do with it, indigenous woman theology, health, and wellness. Lastly, the Happy Hour ends with the softball game! Emilie and Joerg are lobbed theological softballs and knock them out of the park. Pitches include: intersectionality, emodiment, theological solidarity, God is black, polydoxy. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Emilie Townes has been the Dean at Vanderbilt University Divinity School since 2013. She came directly from Yale Divinity School where she was the Professor of African-American religion and theology and associate dean of academic affairs. I'm looking forward to hearing Dr. Townes in person July 7th-10th at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC where I am sure she will be on the main stage. If you can join us, this year or next, please do. Listeners of the Coffeepot Fellowship Podcast can take 25% off your tickets for 2016 using promo code "Goosecast2016"!

The Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, a distinguished scholar and leader in theological education, is dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.  When she first visited the podcast we discussed the origins of Womanist theology and her book Womanist Ethics and the… Read more about Womanist Theology w/ Emilie Townes [Barrel Aged]

Emilie Townes, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology and President of the American Academy of Religion, talks about religion, politics and race.