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Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 11: "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal"Send us a textThis is the third episode in a three-part series hosted by podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith in which she engages in conversation with the members of the "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal" project. They discuss the "classroom" as a space that embodies their dreams, where they risk embodied dreaming, that affirms students' dreams, and where dreams live and not die. The co-leaders of the project are Drs. Kenneth Ngwa and Arthur Pressley (both of Drew Theological School), and the workshop participants are the following,The workshop participant-scholars are: Althea Spencer-Miller, Dre...2024-12-201h 13
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 10: "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal"Send us a textIn this episode 10, the 2nd of a three-part series, podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews the co-leaders, Drs. Kenneth Ngwa and Arthur Pressley (both of Drew Theological School) and the participants of the "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal" project. The workshop participant-scholars are: Althea Spencer-Miller, Drew Theological School; Moses Biney, Bethel Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY; Israel Kamudzandu, St Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri; Ericka Dunbar, Baylor University; Aliou Niang, Union Theological Seminary; Sharon Williams, Iona University; Alice Yafeh-Deigh, Azusa Pacific University; Andrew Mb...2024-12-161h 09
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 9 “Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal”Send us a textIn this episode, podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews the co-leaders, Drs. Kenneth Ngwa and Arthur Pressley (both of Drew Theological School) and the participants of the "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal" project. The workshop participant-scholars are: Althea Spencer-Miller, Drew Theological School; Moses Biney, Bethel Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, NY; Israel Kamudzandu, St Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri; Ericka Dunbar, Baylor University; Aliou Niang, Union Theological Seminary; Sharon Williams, Iona University; Alice Yafeh-Deigh, Azusa Pacific University; Andrew Mbuvi, Albright College. The co-lea...2024-12-121h 05
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 8: After-the-Podcast Womanist Talk, "Shoot'n da Breeze"Send us a textIn Season 2, Episode 8, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith and her guests from Season 2, Episode 7, Dr. CL Nash, Dr. Carol Marie Webster, Dr. Almeena Al-Rasheed, and Rev. Shandon Klein stay by to reflect on some of the themes and womanist issues and concerns raised (and not raised) in the podcast. Support the showThank you for listening!Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.netFollow us on Twitter @BeyondTWCIf you heard something that resonates with you, please share the podcast!Join us again!2024-10-2646 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 7: Part II Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled TowersSend us a textIn Episode 7 of Season 2, Dr. Mitzi Smith's guests are two editors, Dr. CL Nash and Dr. Carol Marie Webster of a special issues of The African Journal of Gender and Religion Vol. 30 No 1 (2024) entitled "Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers." We are also joined by two contributors, Rev. Shandon Klein (Ph.D. Candidate) and Dr. Ameena Al-Rasheed. Rev. Klein discusses her essay, "Empowered Resistance: The Impact of an African Indigenous Faith on the 'Woman Who Was More Than a Man'." Dr. Al-Rasheed talks about her essay, "Sufi Islam and An...2024-10-261h 02
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 6: Theopoetics in Color by Drs. Oluwatomisin Oredein & Lakisha Lockhart-RuschSend us a textDr. Mitzi J. Smith's guests are Drs. Oluwatomisin Oredein and Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch, the co-editors of Theopoetics in Color: Embodied Approaches to Theological Discourses (Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 2024). Available at Amazon.com, Eerdman's publishing, and other book sellers.Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein is Assistant Professor in Black Religious Traditions, Constructive Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School, Texas. Dr. Oredein is a graduate of The University of Virginia (BA) and Duke Divinity School (MDiv). She completed her ThD at Duke in Theology and Ethics in May 2017. Her dissertation examined the t...2024-10-0456 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 5: "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers"Send us a textIn Season 2, Episode 5, podcast host welcomes co-editors and contributors of the special issue of the African Journal of Gender and Religion entitled "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers."Co-editors:Dr. CL Nash is a Political Theology Research Felow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science and a recent recipient of the prestigioous JIAS Writing Fellowship. Nash directs the Misogynoir to Mishpat ("hatred of Black women to justice") Research Network.Dr. Geeta Patel is an interdisciplinary scholar, poet/translator, curator, and writer-activist...2024-08-311h 07
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 4: "Horror and Religion" with Dr. DeAnna M. DanielsSend us a textPodcast Host, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. DeAnna M. Daniels. She is Assistant Professor of Africana and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. In 2023 Dr. Daniels earned her Ph.D. in Religion with a concentration in African American Religion from Rice University. Her scholarly interests are diverse, focusing on Black religion, the intersections of gender and sexuality, Black speculative fiction and horror, popular and visual culture, and art and aesthetics. Additionally, her research engages critical theory, disability theory, Black studies, and cultural studies. In this episode we discuss horror and...2024-08-031h 00
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 3: "Queer Women Preaching" by Rev. Dr. Tijuana GraySend us a textIn Episode 3 of Season 2, Podcast host, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Rev. Dr. Tijuana Gray (DMin, Columbia Theological Seminary) about her completed doctor of ministry project: "Queer Black Women Preaching: Womanist Thought as a Tool for Normalizing Uncomfortable Conversations."Rev. Dr. Tijuana L. Gray recently received her Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in May 2024 and marked the ninth anniversary of her ordination to the ministry with the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. She also holds a Master of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary, a...2024-07-1951 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 2: The Book of ClarenceSend us a textIn Season 2, Episode 2, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith discusses the film "The Book of Clarence" with Drs. Amy Lindeman Allen (Assoc. Prof. of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary, IN) , Kyle Brooks (Visiting Asst. Prof. of Theology and Religious Studies at the Univ. of San Diego), and Tina Pippin (Prof. of Bible & Religion at Agnes Scott College). The film written in the Black radical imagination focuses on the journey and evolution of Clarence, the twin brother of the apostle Thomas. We discuss the racial, gendered, political, theological, christological, pedagogical, and ethical dimensions and...2024-06-141h 12
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 2, Episode 1: Black Women, Black Love Interview with Dr. Dianne StewartSend us a textPodcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith interviews Dr. Dianne Stewart about her book Black Women, Black Love: America's War on Africa American Marriage (Seal, 2020). This is an important study of the systematic and unrelenting terroristic attack on Black love and marriage through the capture of Africans, enslavement, emancipation, reconstruction, civil rights era and in the present. We discuss the negative and debilitating impact of Christian theology and uncritical readings of the Bible support problematic patriarchal marriage and partnerships. Dr. Stewart's website is https://www.diannemstewart.com/about . Support the show2024-06-0757 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 1, Episode 21: Conversation with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor, Author, ScreenwriterSend us a textIn this episode 21 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems about the 18 tenets of Africana Womanism, which is a term Hudson-Weems conceptualized. The sixth edition of Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems' classic text Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves will be published this year by Routledge. Dr. Hudson-Weems is Professor of English at University of Missouri. She was the first to argue that the lynching of Emmett Till was the impetus for the civil rights movement. Her recently published edited volume Africana-Melanated Womanism: In It Together (Cambridge Scholars) is available from Amazon and other...2023-03-311h 20
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 1, Episode 20: Conversation with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Professor, Author, ActivistSend us a textIn Episode 20, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith dialogues with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Prof of Hebrew Bible, Drew University Theological School, about his new book Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus (Westminster John Knox, 2022). Dr. Ngwa's book is available from the publisher, Amazon.com, and other book sellers. He is founder and director of the Religion and Global Health Forum at Drew and founder of "Never Stop Breathing," a research and praxis organization working at the interface of racial, social, and health justice. Support the showTha...2023-03-2459 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 1, Episode 19: Conversation with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. LettsomeSend us a textIn this Episode 19, podcast host Rev. Dr. Mitzi J Smith talks with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. Lettsome, Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament and Womanist Hermeneutics at Eden Theological Seminary about her journey to womanism, her seminal text Call and Consequences, and her ministry (www.RSLministries.com). Support the showThank you for listening!Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.netFollow us on Twitter @BeyondTWCIf you heard something that resonates with you, please share the podcast!Join us again!Consider be...2023-03-1744 min
Beyond the Womanist ClassroomSeason 1, Episode 18, Conversation with Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, The Scholar with a CameraSend us a textIn this episode 18 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith welcomes guest and colleague Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, the Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA. He is a documentarian, pastor, professor who teaches with digital media, and the scholar with a camera who is building bridges to justice. He is a staunch supporter of womanism and feminism, Black women in general, and/or LGBTQI+ peoples. In this episode we discuss his latest work. Check out his website at www.drralphbasuiwatkins.org. Support the show2023-03-0643 min