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Emilie M. Townes

The Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, a distinguished scholar and leader in theological education, is dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.

Remapping American ChristianitiesJuly 10, 2016

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we,…

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Archive, Reconstruction 3.0, Remapping American ChristianitiesJanuary 16, 2016

“Fusion Politics” Is the Only Cure to America’s Plutocracy

By Emilie M. Townes

Rev. William Barber’s conversation with Peter Laarman, here in RD, underscores an important strategic lesson for…

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(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 17, 2009

We Are All God’s Got

By Emilie M. Townes

We no longer have the focus of the civil rights movement or of the great leaders of that time, but we are called, nonetheless, to change our world.

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