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We can’t wait!
Join the @vdstheojustice for its latest Mobile Institute-with leaders from Kentucky who will dialogue with us about reimagining public safety. Event is free but requires registration. You can register here: https://t.co/nQNJ8oM5qG
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Scholar. Prophet. Activist. Creative. We see you, dean @emtownes!
As published poets and scholars, Dr. Emilie Townes, @VUDivinity, and Dr. Valerie Bridgeman, @MTSOedu, talk about their creative process and its influence upon their scholarship. Listen here... https://t.co/qxyTDjVE4W
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I’m nearing a loss for words.
The Kenosha, Wis., police chief said a review found that officer Rusten Sheskey — who fired 7 shots at close range at Jacob Blake's back last summer, leaving him paralyzed — acted within department policy and has returned to the job. https://t.co/khBdm82YFg
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See you there?
Only one week until the 2021 #ShurdenLectures—Religious Liberty Has Been White Too Long: Voices of Black Scholars! Register now for this event, featuring @anthony_pinn, @YAMSIsrael, @NicoMyTurn, and @DrDavidGoatley. https://t.co/43mFHAR0TY
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https://t.co/SSEnwkB4xd The word is racism and this article is🔥 today’s must read.
washingtonpost.com
I will no longer censor myself.
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Y’all. Save the date!
Meet Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood, one of the presenters for the 2021 #ShurdenLectures — Religious Liberty Has Been White Too Long: Voices of Black Scholars. She is Associate Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
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#ICYMI we have posted last Thursday’s conversation with Dr. Allan Boesak, here: https://t.co/p9FPrLajzM. Warning: you will leave feeling challenged, energized, hopeful!
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Rev. @lmcheifetz shares this reflection about the March 16 Atlanta shooting spree that illuminates the intersections and collision of sexism, racism, white supremacy, objectification and misogynistic violence.
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The senseless deaths of eight people, six of them Asian women, joins the list of massacres that are becoming a dominant narrative of our country. This violent blending of race and gender must stop. - @emtownes, Vanderbilt Divinity School dean #StopAsianHate
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This was my first time on national tv. I was nervous so I put on my prettiest hoops and twisted my hair and spoke to @AlexWitt about why labeling folks of color "vaccine hesitant" dismisses our legitimate concerns and detracts from efforts to address access. #BlackWomeninMedicine
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A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious.” I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.
Wow, a fantastic @washingtonpost piece by @nnekamcguire . We live in a contradictory society that can celebrate a black girl poet & also pepper spray a 9 yr old. Yes see me, but also see all other black girls who've been made invisible. I can not, will not, rise alone.
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Join us now, and then tomorrow morning with @ringercd for a book talk and panel discussion on the theme, Necropolitics: What is the Ecclesial Response?
Now streaming: A conversation with @cyntoia_brown , hosted by @vdstheojustice. Join us on Facebook: https://t.co/phsYMCrMwa or https://t.co/QHf5eSWTed
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What are you reading this or listening to this weekend? If you're needing suggestions, be sure to check out the interview @AaronKStauffer did with Rev. Dr. Teresa Smallwood (@vdstheojustice) on racial capitalism: https://t.co/LTyazPdbZB
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This evening, we host the first of our Relevant Religion series lectures for the semester. A native of Tulsa, Dr. Jerrolyn Eulinberg will deliver the lecture, Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Remembering 100 Years in 2021. Learn more: https://t.co/zYsh0Gd8c8
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Activism isn’t an option for prophets, it’s agency directed towards justice. Evil isn’t a dissenting opinion, it’s sin. These times call us out as thinking people of faith, and they demand that we act in keeping with what we profess.- @drsmft #scholaprophetarum
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$600. $11 billion for a border wall. $15 billion for a Space Force. We need a radical revolution of values.
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Well...
The United States is really trying to end this pandemic by solely relying on people to just wake up one day and act completely differently. It is as if our entire public health system is now depending on individualism (and personal wealth) to save us.
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Hope y’all check this out!
Join us live *now* for the final installment of our fall Relevant Religion series. Tonight's conversation: Moral leadership and whiteness after the election. We welcome @robertpjones @emtownes @pshepp0593 as this evening's conversation partners. https://t.co/P2o3IZ2g95
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Indeed!
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