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TitleWomanist Wisdom Series “Lifting Up Black Women’s Voices”
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Resource/Media TypeWebinar Series
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Resource Date2022-02-10
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Program AreaSpiritual Innovation
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SourceFMN Original
Description
Faith Matters Network is a womanist-led organization that emphasizes the importance of equipping spiritually grounded leaders, healers, and activists from a place of sustainability, connection, and accompaniment. In 2022, we felt the call to amplify our identity as an organization, which is rooted in womanist wisdom and praxis. In honor of Black & Women’s History Month, we launched our first Womanist Wisdom series celebrating Black women’s contributions across all generations. We invited Womanist scholars, authors, and faith leaders to share their work and wisdom with us. Below you can find a replay of our virtual gathering and conversations that birthed what we now consider our annual signature event at FMN.
Additional Information
Session #1 – Rev. Melanie Jones
The Reverend Melanie Jones Quarles, Ph.D. is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. Melanie is an Assistant Professor of Ethics, Theology, and Culture and the Inaugural Director of the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Her research engages womanist theological ethics and sacred texts, millennials and faith, Black aesthetics, and digital techno cultures.
Session #2 – Dr. Courtney Bryant
Dr. Courtney Bryant is a Womanist scholar, preacher and practitioner. She received her Doctorate of Religion, with an emphasis in Womanist Ethics and Christian Social Ethics, from Vanderbilt University. Focusing on the role of the erotic as a divine resource for black women’s moral agency, Bryant’s scholarship explores how erotic practices— which she defines as sexual and non-sexual bodily manifestations of love— can facilitate individual and social transformation.
Session #3 – Dr. Phillis Sheppard
Dr. Sheppard is Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also the Inaugural Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Sheppard is a womanist practical theologian, ethnographer, psychoanalyst, and author of two books.
