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Emilie M. Townes
Emilie M. Townes teaches womanist ethics and society at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. She is the author of Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health and a Womanist Ethic of Care (Wipf and Stock) and Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Palgrave).
Toni Morrison and the holiness of the living, breathing flesh
(RNS) — Amid the obituaries and tributes for novelist Toni Morrison, who died this week at age 88; of all the shared emails, texts and calls with friends and present and former students, as I sat w...
Tennessee: poster child for a broken system
A justice system oriented mainly toward punishing offenders can have tragic consequences.
Emilie M. Townes: 5 picks
We posed this question to eight theologians: Suppose someone told you they haven’t been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years. Now they want to read the most important books in theology that were written during that time. What five titles would you suggest?
Washed in grace
It is by living and dying that one becomes a theologian, Martin Luther said....
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