15.1 Emilie Townes

06/18/18 • 35 min

Emilie is currently the Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.This week we chat about Emilie’s life and discernment of her vocation(s) of ministry, teaching and leadership in academia. She’s a pioneer, a visionary, and dare I say - a prophet.

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14.2 A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What it Means to Follow Jesus Today

A Flexible Faith is a project aiming to create a theology of dialogue. Bonnie surveys the history of the Christian tradition to show how Christians have responded to life’s questions theologically. She presents topics from atonement theory to should Christians vote to women’s equality and offers various responses and discussion questions to help folks engage with one another. Also, throughout the chapters, Bonnie includes brief interviews with Christians from varied traditions such as Anabaptist, Pentecostal, Methodist, Womanist, Liberationist and many more. We discuss what sparked Bonnie’s interest in this project and how it has shaped her theology.

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15.2 Faith and Politcs

Today we talk faith and politics and wrestle with the question of can and should our faith be political? We get into Emilie’s take on this question especially as it relates to theological education and her post as Dean of a Divinity School. She drops some serious wisdom bombs in this episode ya’ll are gonna love it.