Mitzi J Smith PhD Podcasts

In Episode 20, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith dialogues with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Prof of Hebrew Bible, Drew University Theological School, about his new book Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus (Westminster John Knox, 2022). Dr. Ngwa's book is available from the publisher, Amazon.com, and other book sellers. He is founder and director …

In this Episode 19, podcast host Rev. Dr. Mitzi J Smith talks with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. Lettsome, Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament and Womanist Hermeneutics at Eden Theological Seminary about her journey to womanism, her seminal text Call and Consequences, and her ministry (www.RSLministries.com). Thank you for listening! Check Out M…

In this episode 18 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith welcomes guest and colleague Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, the Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA. He is a documentarian, pastor, professor who teaches with digital media, and the scholar with a camera who is building bridges to justice. He …

In Episode 17 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith has a conversation with womanist colleague the Rev. Dr. Angela N. Parker. Dr. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Decatur, GA. We discuss how Dr. Parker became a womanist biblical scholar and her wonderful book If God Still Breathes, …

In this episode 16 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith conducts a fascinating interview with Dr. Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, Hebrew Bible/OT Womanist Scholar, University of Botswana, Humboldt Research Scholar based in University of Bamberg, Germany, and Project Partner with Profs. J. Stiebert of Leeds University and Dr. Katie Edwards of Sheffield University…

Hebrew Bible/OT womanist scholar, author, preacher, and public theologian Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems is the guest of this episode 15 of Season 1 of the Beyond the Womanist Classroom Podcast. The host, Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith speaks with Dr. Weems about her essay "The Biblical Field's Loss Was Womanist Ethics' Gain: Katie Cannon and the Dilemma of the…

In this Episode 14, podcast host Rev. Dr. Mitzi J Smith (womanist scholar, author, professor) interviews Rev. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis about her new book The Trauma of Sexual and Domestic Violence: Navigating My Way through Individuals, Religion, Policing and the Courts. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Follow us o…

In this Episode of Beyond the Womanist Classroom, podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews Dr. C L Nash about her womanist activist work in the United Kingdom and her brainchild Misogynoir to Mishpat, a website devoted to the work of Black women (of African descent) religious scholars. Listeners can find Misogynoir to Mishpat on Facebook and Twitter…

In this Episode 12, Dr. Mitzi Smith (Podcast Host) has a conversation with her womanist colleagues, Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs (womanist ethicist) and Dr. Lisa Weaver (womanist scholar of liturgy) about negotiating life and work in a predominantly white academy and institution. We discuss the challenges, Black women's resilience, and our beautiful minds, …

In Episode 11 of BTWC, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs, a womanist ethicist. Dr. Riggs discusses her book Plenty Good Room: Women Versus Male Power in the Black Church. Dr. Riggs argues that we must break free from the social mythologies that we inherited from our enslavement and from white-patriarchal-capitalist society to create…

This is Episode 10 of Beyond the Womanist Classroom. Podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins about his project "Seeing the Future of the African American Church in the Rainbow." Find more info at futureoftheBlackChurch.org . Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Follow us on Twitter @BeyondTWC …

In this Episode 9, Dr. Mitzi J Smith and co-host Rebecca Christian lift up the voices of women in the struggle for freedom and empowerment. These are women from the past, from Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer to Pearl Cleage and Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams. We want to affirm our right to vote, celebrate our right to vote, and encourage us to us…

This is Episode 8, Season 1 "The Burden & Responsibility of Citizenship: if it Wasn't for the Women!" with podcast host Dr. Mitzi J Smith (womanist professor, author and scholar) and co-host Ms. Rebecca Christian. We discuss Black women voting rights activists and Mark 12:13-17 (render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God…

In this episode 7 Women, Sexual Violence and Power, womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi Smith discusses sexual violence against women and power. She focuses on the so-called biblical story of "the woman caught in adultery" and the apocryphal story of Susanna. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Follow us on Twitter …

In Episode 6 of the weekly podcast "Beyond the Womanist Classroom," Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. Michael Newheart, her first biblical studies professor at Howard Univ School of Divinity. Dr. Smith talks with Dr. Newheart about the recent book they co-authored that focuses on the Bible as a collection of testimonies and what that means for bibl…

In Season 1, Episode 5 of the weekly podcast Beyond the Womanist Classroom, Dr. Mitzi Smith hosts a conversation with Ms. Rebecca Christian (a public school education in the DC area) about Womanism, approaching the Bible as a collection of testimonies (testimonies about testimonies within testimonies) and justice. Thank you for listening! Check Out…

In Season 1, Episode 4 of the weekly podcast Beyond the Womanist Classroom, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith hosts a conversation with Ms. Rebecca Christian (a public school educator) about the. need for different and diverse questions. Black women must raise their questions when doing biblical interpretation and in life. Thank you for listening! Check Out My We…

This is a booster episode of affirmations to encourage ourselves and our neighbors. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Follow us on Twitter @BeyondTWC If you heard something that resonates with you, please share the podcast! Join us again! Consider becoming a monthly subscriber of this podcast through Buzzsprout.co…

In Season 1, Episode 3 of Beyond the Womanist Classroom, womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi J Smith discussions womanist biblical interpretation and justice in conversation with public school educator Ms. Rebecca Christian. We privilege the world in front of the text, where we live and where we interact with God! Thank you for listening! Check Out…

In this Episode 2 (not 3; my error in the audio) of the weekly Beyond the Womanist Classroom podcast, the host Dr. Mitzi J Smith (womanist biblical scholar, professor, and author) discusses the Bible as a "human" text and what that means for interpretation. Dr. Smith's dialogue partner or co-host for this episode is Ms. Rebecca Christian, a public …

This is Season 1, Episode 1 of the weekly podcast Beyond the Womanist Classroom hosted by Mitzi J. Smith, PhD and co-hosted by Ms. Rebecca Christian. Dr. Smith is a womanist biblical scholar, professor, and author. In this introductory episode Dr. Smith discusses Alice Walker's definition of "womanist," the Bible as an artifact of the Black communi…

This is the trailer for the new "Beyond the Womanist Classroom Podcast" hosted by Mitzi J. Smith, PhD, womanist biblical scholar, professor, and author. The podcast is co-hosted by Ms. Rebecca Christian, a public school educator. Please join us as and our guests as we talk all things womanism, biblical interpretation and justice. Thank you for list…