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Hope y’all check this out!

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$600. $11 billion for a border wall. $15 billion for a Space Force. We need a radical revolution of values.

Activism isn’t an option for prophets, it’s agency directed towards justice. Evil isn’t a dissenting opinion, it’s sin. These times call us out as thinking people of faith, and they demand that we act in keeping with what we profess.- @drsmft #scholaprophetarum

This evening, we host the first of our Relevant Religion series lectures for the semester. A native of Tulsa, Dr. Jerrolyn Eulinberg will deliver the lecture, Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Remembering 100 Years in 2021. Learn more: divinity.vanderbilt.edu

What are you reading this or listening to this weekend? If you're needing suggestions, be sure to check out the interview @AaronKStauffer did with Rev. Dr. Teresa Smallwood (VDS Public Theology) on racial capitalism: youtu.be/O-RKCgxMt50

Join us now, and then tomorrow morning with Christophe Ringer for a book talk and panel discussion on the theme, Necropolitics: What is the Ecclesial Response?

A security guard tailed me on my walk home tonight. He demanded if I lived there because “you look suspicious.” I showed my keys & buzzed myself into my building. He left, no apology. This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.

This was my first time on national tv. I was nervous so I put on my prettiest hoops and twisted my hair and spoke to Alex Witt about why labeling folks of color "vaccine hesitant" dismisses our legitimate concerns and detracts from efforts to address access. #BlackWomeninMedicine

The senseless deaths of eight people, six of them Asian women, joins the list of massacres that are becoming a dominant narrative of our country. This violent blending of race and gender must stop. - Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt Divinity School dean #StopAsianHate

Rev. @lmcheifetz shares this reflection about the March 16 Atlanta shooting spree that illuminates the intersections and collision of sexism, racism, white supremacy, objectification and misogynistic violence. cnn.com/2021/03/20/opi…

#ICYMI we have posted last Thursday’s conversation with Dr. Allan Boesak, here: publictheologyracialjustice.org/events/2021/3/…. Warning: you will leave feeling challenged, energized, hopeful!

Y’all. Save the date!

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… The word is racism and this article is🔥 today’s must read.

See you there?

I’m nearing a loss for words.

Scholar. Prophet. Activist. Creative. We see you, dean Emilie M. Townes!

We see you, B. T. Paschall ✊🏽

We can’t wait!