Beyond the Womanist Classroom is a weekly podcast hosted by womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi J. Smith (PhD). We discuss all things womanism, cutting-edge biblical interpretation, and justice. Please consider supporting us by subscribing to our podcast on buzzsprout.com.
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Womanist Bible Talk: A Podcast for Womanish Bible Readers and Friends
Vanessa Lovelace & Gay Byron
“Womanist Bible Talk: A Podcast for Womanish Bible Readers and Friends” engages stories about women in Scripture from the perspectives of contemporary Black and other women of color from different walks of life and various socio-economic backgrounds. Hosts, Vanessa Lovelace and Gay Byron, redeem the reputations of biblical women, such as Jezebel, Delilah, and Mary Magdalene who are often represented as “bad girls of the Bible” and introduce other women who have either been nameless or hidden ...
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Season 2, Episode 2: The Book of Clarence
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In Season 2, Episode 2, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith discusses the film "The Book of Clarence" with Drs. Amy Lindeman Allen (Assoc. Prof. of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary, IN) , Kyle Brooks (Visiting Asst. Prof. of Theology and Religious Studies at the Univ. of San Diego), and Tina Pippin (Prof. of Bible & Religion at Agnes Sco…
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Season 2, Episode 1: Black Women, Black Love Interview with Dr. Dianne Stewart
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Podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith interviews Dr. Dianne Stewart about her book Black Women, Black Love: America's War on Africa American Marriage (Seal, 2020). This is an important study of the systematic and unrelenting terroristic attack on Black love and marriage through the capture of Africans, enslavement, emancipation, reconstruction, civil rig…
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Episode 7: Luke 18, Jesus, infants, and Fannie Lou Hamer
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Guest co-host, Dr. Mitzi Smith and I, interview Dr. Bridgett Green, to discuss her article in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible, "'Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free': Exploring Gender and Class Injustice in a Story about Women (Luke 18:15-17)." Dr. Green broadens the world of infants in the Greco Roman world for our listeners as she interpre…
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Episode 6: Acts 16, An enslaved girl named Rhoda?
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Guest co-host, Dr. Mitzi Smith and I, interview Dr. Margaret Aymer to discuss her article in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible, “Outrageous, Audacious, Courageous, Willful: Reading the Enslaved Girl of Acts 12.” Dr. Aymer discusses the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, immigration and slavery in the ancient world. Dr. Aymer explains what …
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Episode 5: Revelation 12, the woman clothed with the sun, goddess Kali, and breast milk
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Dr. Sharon Jacob and Dr. Jennifer Kaalund join guest co-host, the Rev. Dr. Mitzi Smith, and me in discussing their article "Flowing from Breast to Breast: An Examination of Dis/placed Motherhood in African American and Indian Wet Nurses" in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Follow along as Dr. Jacob and Dr. Kaalund wea…
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Episode 4: Numbers 30, Africana Women, and Singleness
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Guest co-host, the Rev. Dr. Mitzi Smith joins me in interviewing Dr. Stacy Davis for her article “The Invisible Women: Numbers 30 and the Politics of Singleness in Africana Communities" in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Listen to Dr. Davis discuss vows made by single, never-married biblical women, the invisibility o…
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Gay L. Byron was the co-host of Womanist Bible Talk: A Podcast for Womanish Bible Readers and Their Friends. Gay died suddenly and unexpectedly December 6, 2023. The Rev. Canon Hugh Page and the Rev. Dr. Margaret Aymer joined me to pay tribute to this womanist scholar, researcher, teacher, preacher, and friend.…
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Episode 1: What Is Womanist Biblical Interpretation?
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In this inaugural episode, hosts, Vanessa Lovelace and Gay Byron, explain how this podcast grew from their volume of essays featuring an ensemble of Old Testament and New Testament women scholars of color titled Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse to bring those voices to life in interviews with the contributors. Gay and …
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Episode 2: Abuse in the Book of Job
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In this episode, guest, Marlene Underwood, discusses her essay, "'Battered Love': Abuse in the Book of Job" in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace. Marlene discusses the treatment of Job by the deity through the lens of intimate partner violence. Learn how an upright and blamele…
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Season 1, Episode 21: Conversation with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor, Author, Screenwriter
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In this episode 21 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems about the 18 tenets of Africana Womanism, which is a term Hudson-Weems conceptualized. The sixth edition of Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems' classic text Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves will be published this year by Routledge. Dr. Hudson-Weems is Professor of E…
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Season 1, Episode 20: Conversation with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Professor, Author, Activist
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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 …
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Season 1, Episode 19: Conversation with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. Lettsome
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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). Support the Show. Thank you for list…
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Season 1, Episode 18, Conversation with Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, The Scholar with a Camera
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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 …
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Season 1, Episode 17 Conversation with Rev Dr Angela N. Parker, Asst Prof of New Testament, McAfee School of Theology
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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, …
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Season 1, Episode 16: Interview with Dr. Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, Womanist HB/OT Scholar, Univ of Botswana
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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…
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Season 1 Episode 15: Conversation with Rev Dr Renita Weems and her Recent Essay on Katie Cannon
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 14 Interview with Rev Dr Sharon Ellis Davis
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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. Support the Show. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmi…
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Season 1, Episode 13 Interview with Dr. CL Nash of Misogynoir to Mishpat
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 12: Black Women Professors in Theological Education at PWIs: Challenges, Resilience, and Progress
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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, …
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Season 1, Episode 11: Plenty Good Room with Dr. Marcia Riggs
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 10: "Seeing the Future of the African American Church in the Rainbow" with Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins
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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 . Support the Show. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Follow us on T…
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Season 1, Episode 9: Voices of Women in the Struggle for Freedom: Let's Vote
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 8: Burden & Responsibility of Citizenship: If it Wasn't for the Women!
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 7 Women, Sexual Violence, and Power Part 1
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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. Support the Show. Thank you for listening! Check Out My Website at www.mitzijsmith.net Fol…
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Season 1, Episode 6: Conversation with Dr. Michael Newheart about Bible as Testimony
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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…
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Season 1, Episode 5: Womanism, Testimonies, and Biblical Interpretation
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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. Support the Show. Thank you for li…
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Season 1, Episode 4: Womanism, Raising Questions and Justice
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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. Support the Show. Thank you for listenin…
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This is a booster episode of affirmations to encourage ourselves and our neighbors. Support the Show. 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 thr…
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Season 1, Episode 3: Privileging the (In)Justice in the World Where We Live
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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! Support the Show. Thank you for li…
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Season 1, Episode 2: Bible as a "Human" Text and Womanism
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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 …
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Season 1, Episode 1 Introduction to Womanism and Biblical Interpretation
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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…
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Season 1 Trailer "Beyond the Womanist Classroom Podcast"
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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. Support the Show. …
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