On this special episode of Theology Live, we share the Question and Answer segment from the Rev. Janae Pitts-Murdock's conversation on black women and/in the Bible.

Bonus: HERmeneutics

After pondering about the relative silence of White Christians in the latest spate of high-profile police killings of black Americans, the Rev. Dr. André Johnson took to Twitter and began #whitechurchquiet. In the weeks and months to follow, a conversation about racism and white theology was sparked. Listen in as Dr. Johnson offers a detailed account of this powerful hashtag.

Episode 10: #WhiteChurchQuiet 

Our Guest this episode is the Rev. Becca Stevens. Becca is the founder and president of Thistle Farms, the largest social enterprise in the United States run by survivors of human trafficking and the commercial sex trade. She is also the author of 13 books and works as an Episcopal priest and chaplain at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville.

Thistle Farms

“African-American women are not newcomers to biblical interpretation,” says Dr. Nyasha Junior in her book An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation. For centuries, black women have read, improvised, preached, and riffed off of biblical texts; texts which have often been used to silence, erase, and oppress them. Listen in as the Rev. Janae Pitts-Murdock discusses black women in/and the Bible.

Episode 7: HERmeneutics

Good Friday is singular in its ability to gather humanity's desperations and hopes into one day. Listen in as we explore both on history's darkest day.

Holy Week: Good Friday

Every four years, the United States of America holds a presidential election, putting a number of ideas, ideals, personalities, and historical trajectories on a given ballot. On November 8, 2016, that tradition continued with the election of Donald John Trump, Sr. of New York. Listen in as ethnographer and professor Dr. Zandria Robinson describes what she heard - culturally, racially, socially - in the election season and results.

Episode 11: Presidential Election

On this special episode of Theology Live, incoming host Meredith Day takes an opportunity to turn interviewer into interviewee. Listen as the Rev. Broderick Greer speaks to us about his religious upbringing, his movement towards the priesthood, and the stories that shape and sustain his spiritual quest.

Episode 18: Broderick’s Exit Interview

In this first episode of Theology Live's third season, Father Broderick is joined by Mike McHargue, author and host of The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike. Mike helps us probe the complex dimensions of Mystery, Science, and Christian faith.

Episode 17: Mystery, Science, and Faith

This episode was recorded on April 12, 2018 which marked Yom HaShoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day. We welcomed guest Micah Greenstein, Senior Rabbi at Temple Israel in Memphis. Micah has served Temple Israel for 26 years, 16 of those years as its Senior Rabbi. We reflect on the importance of Yom HaShoa, particularly as it relates to our current political and social climate, as well as the presence of rising antisemitism in Europe and America.

Holocaust Remembrance & Antisemitism

Our guest for this episode is the Rev. Virzola Law, Senior Pastor of Lindenwood Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. In this, Rev. Law's second appearance on the podcast, Meredith interviews her on the legacy of beloved community, a concept espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which amplifies the work of non-violence and reconciliation during the Civil Rights era, with a vision toward a more peaceable future.

Episode 20: Beloved Community

Once a month, the 20s and 30s community of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church gathers over food and drinks to engage Memphis' most compelling theological minds. Join us as we wrestle with life's most important and unsettling questions.

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"What makes us Protestant should also make us anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-heteronormative," says the Rev. Dr. Courtney Pace, a statement that stands over and against many of the ways Christians use racism, sexism, and heterosexism to oppress others. In this final episode of Season 1 of Theology Live, listen in as Dr. Pace links the ways in which revivalism, race, and gender have played out in the Church's histories and how the impacts Christians today.

Episode 8: Revivalism

"We need all the stories we can get," says the Reverend Katherine Bush in this episode of Theology Live. Listen in as she explores how the intersection of literature and theology reveals the ways in which we are loved, cherished, and are in need of broader, deeper connection with one another.

Episode 3: Literature

In this first installment of "Listener Mail", Father Broderick addresses two questions posed by a Theology Live listener; one about sexual ethics and another about the role of racism in theology. Margaret Farley's "Just Love" is cited in the sexual ethics response: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Love-Framework-Christian-Sexual/dp/0826429246/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595417&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=just+love and James Cone's "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" is cited in the second: https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Lynching-Tree-James-Cone/dp/1626980055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595481&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+cross+and+the+lynching+tree. Please pose your questions at the hashtag #TheologyLive or send them to Father Broderick at broderick@gracestlukes.org.

In this first installment of "Listener Mail", Father Broderick addresses two questions posed by a Theology Live listener; one about sexual ethics and another about the role of racism in theology. Margaret Farley's "Just Love" is cited in the sexual ethics response: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Just-Love-Framework-Christian-Sexual/dp/0826429246/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595417&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=just+love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Just-Love-Framework-Christian-Sexual/dp/0826429246/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595417&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=just+love</a> and James Cone's "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" is cited in the second: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Lynching-Tree-James-Cone/dp/1626980055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595481&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+cross+and+the+lynching+tree" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Lynching-Tree-James-Cone/dp/1626980055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475595481&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+cross+and+the+lynching+tree</a>. Please pose your questions at the hashtag #TheologyLive or send them to Father Broderick at broderick@gracestlukes.org.

Listener Mail: Sex and Race

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it,” says scholar and storyteller, Dr. Brene Brown. “Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.” Listen in as the Rev. Virzola Law, senior pastor of Lindenwood Christian Church, discusses a theology of human vulnerability and divine strength.

Episode 4: Vulnerability

"[W]hen Anglicanism is at its best, its liturgy, its poetry, its music and its life can create a world of wonder in which it is very easy to fall in love with God,” wrote Episcopal priest and theologian Urban T. Holmes III. This quote took Theology Live to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art where its executive director, Dr. Emily Ballew Neff, discusses the intersection of art and theology, specifically how Yinka Shonibare MBE’s four sculptures, "Rage of the Ballet Gods," touches on pagan mythology, globalization, dance, migration, violence and climate change. Please find a visual from the evening here: https://www.901theology.com/blog/episode9visual.

"[W]hen Anglicanism is at its best, its liturgy, its poetry, its music and its life can create a world of wonder in which it is very easy to fall in love with God,” wrote Episcopal priest and theologian Urban T. Holmes III. This quote took Theology Live to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art where its executive director, Dr. Emily Ballew Neff, discusses the intersection of art and theology, specifically how Yinka Shonibare MBE’s four sculptures, "Rage of the Ballet Gods," touches on pagan mythology, globalization, dance, migration, violence and climate change. Please find a visual from the evening here: <a href="https://www.901theology.com/blog/episode9visual" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.901theology.com/blog/episode9visual</a>.

Episode 9: Art

A holy Lent is not necessarily a burdensome Lent. For those who observe the forty day ritual fast leading up to the Great Vigil of Easter, it is a time of self-examination, penitence, and grace. Join Father Auggie DeArmond as he explores the potential this holy season holds to bear fruit in the lives of the baptized.

Episode 5: Lent

Religious extremism doesn't happen over night. Almost no one notices it's happening when it's happening. Join Rabbi Katie Bauman as she discusses how people of faith and conscience might resist the lure of extremism.

Episode 6: Extremism 

Our guest for this episode is the Rev. Dr. Andre Johnson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Memphis, Lecturer at Memphis Theological Seminary, Senior Pastor of Gifts of Life Ministries, and the founder and managing editor of the Rhetoric, Race, and Religion Blog. Join us as we discuss the intersection of theology and race, focusing on the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and the work he and others are doing here in Memphis with Take Em Down 901.

Episode 19: Theology & Race

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