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TitleWomanist Wisdom Series “Redeeming Self-Love”
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Resource/Media TypeWebinar Series
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Resource Date2023-02-20
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Program AreaSpiritual Innovation
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SourceFMN Original
Description
I love my skin. I love my body. I love my brilliance. I love me. Self-love is about celebrating oneself. How can that be done in the midst of the busyness and challenges of life? Faith Matters Network presented our second annual Womanist Wisdom series in 2023 – this time focused on Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas’ third tenet of womanism: redemptive self-love. The series asks the question, how can I love myself, regardless? Gleaning from our diverse group of beloved wisdom-keepers provides the opportunity to renew our commitment to loving ourselves. Below you can find a replay of our virtual gathering and conversations with Black women scholars, theologians, and powerhouses who show us what it means to love ourselves fully.
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Session #1 – “Tenets of Womanism” with Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas
Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas is a preeminent scholar, prolific author, public speaker, DEI trainer, management consultant, executive coach, and ordained Baptist pastoral counselor. Floyd-Thomas is currently the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. As a nationally recognized teacher and scholar, Dr. Floyd-Thomas is a leading voice in social ethics who provides moral leadership to several national and international organizations that educate, advocate, support and shape the strategic work of individuals, initiatives, and institutions in their organizing efforts of championing and cultivating equity, diversity, and inclusion via organizations such as Black Religious Scholars Group (BRSG), Society for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Religion (SRER), Strategic Effective Ethical Solutions (SEES), Society of Christian Ethics (SCE) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Session #2 – “Self Love is Self Care” by Dr. Emilie Townes
Dr. Emilie M. Townes, an American Baptist clergywoman, is a native of Durham, North Carolina. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion in Society and Personality from Northwestern University. Dr. Townes is the Dean and University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society (Divinity) and University Distinguished Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies (College of Arts and Science) at Vanderbilt University, becoming the first African American to serve as Dean of the Divinity School in 2013.
Session #3 – “Sensual Faith” with Lyvonne Briggs
Lyvonne Briggs is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher and speaker. She is the host of Sensual Faith Podcast and the author of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body (Convergent/Penguin Random House out March '23). She is the co-host of Sanctified, a faith-based, Spotify-exclusive podcast on Jemele Hill’s Unbothered Network. A spiritual life coach and TEDx speaker, she has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping the Church.”
Session #4 – “Fierce Love” with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister and Public Theologian at Middle Church in New York City. In her activism, preaching, speaking, writing, and teaching, Dr. Lewis advocates for racial equality, gun control, economic justice, and equal rights for all sexual orientations/genders. A world-renowned theologian, Dr. Lewis has been featured on The Today Show, All In with Chris Hayes, AM Joy, The Melissa Harris Perry Show, NY1, ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS and many more. Her writing has appeared in outlets like Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, The Huffington Post and Religion News Service. She is the author of several books, most recently, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to a Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World which was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
