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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.

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Religion Dispatches
We do not love ourselves. We have become cavalier with each other’s lives and we, as a nation, have not yet decided that we have reached the point where we will now practice willful and strategic…
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Religion Dispatches
Rev. William Barber’s conversation with Peter Laarman, here in RD, underscores an important strategic lesson for those of us who seek to be justice-makers—we cannot do this work from ahistorical and…
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Religion Dispatches
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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