Beyond the Womanist Classroom

Dec 20 2024 34 ep. 50 mins 1
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Beyond the Womanist Classroom is a weekly podcast hosted by womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi J. Smith (PhD). We discuss all things womanism, cutting-edge biblical interpretation, and justice. Please consider supporting us by subscribing to our podcast on buzzsprout.com.

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Season 2, Episode 11: "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal"

Dec 20 2024 73 mins  
Send us a text This 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-

Season 2, Episode 10: "Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal"

Dec 16 2024 69 mins  
Send us a text In 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 Presbyteri

Season 2, Episode 9 “Dreaming Up Pedagogies that Heal”

Dec 12 2024 65 mins  
Send us a text In 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 Kam

Season 2, Episode 8: After-the-Podcast Womanist Talk, "Shoot'n da Breeze"

Oct 26 2024 46 mins  
Send us a text In 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 show Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mit

Season 2, Episode 7: Part II Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers

Oct 26 2024 62 mins  
Send us a text In 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

Season 2, Episode 6: Theopoetics in Color by Drs. Oluwatomisin Oredein & Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch

Oct 04 2024 56 mins  
Send us a text Dr. 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, Constructi

Season 2, Episode 5: "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers"

Aug 31 2024 67 mins  
Send us a text In 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

Season 2, Episode 4: "Horror and Religion" with Dr. DeAnna M. Daniels

Aug 02 2024 60 mins  
Send us a text Podcast 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 gend

Season 2, Episode 3: "Queer Women Preaching" by Rev. Dr. Tijuana Gray

Jul 19 2024 51 mins  
Send us a text In 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 T

Season 2, Episode 2: The Book of Clarence

Jun 14 2024 72 mins  
Send us a text In 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). Th