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SUMMARY:Black History Month
DESCRIPTION:  \nFind all the events details and RSVP links HERE.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/black-history-month-2023/
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SUMMARY:Black History Month Jubilee Celebration
DESCRIPTION:5pm: Worship in Christ Chapel\, featuring Rev. Dr. James Wesley Dennis\, III\, preaching\, and a guest gospel choir\, Praise Team from Grant AME Worship Center \n6:30pm: Reception in the Weeks Center \n\nThe Rev. Dr. James Wesley Dennis III serves as an Associate Program Director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School\, where he works with Foundations of Christian Leadership and Reflective Leadership Grants and directs the Innovation Grants program. An ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church\, James has served congregations in South Carolina and Tennessee\, as well as the connectional church. He graduated from Morehouse College\, Vanderbilt Divinity School and Candler School of Theology (Emory University). He enjoys good food\, fine cigars and dating his wife\, Mrs. Joslyn White Dennis. Find out more here. \nView the live-stream for the event here.\n\nPersons of African ancestry are invited to wear kente and others are welcome to wear any combination of red\, yellow\, and green in solidarity with the Black community. \nPlease RSVP below:
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/black-history-month-jubilee-celebration/
LOCATION:Seminary of the Southwest\, 501 East 32nd Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Payne Lecture with Dr. Donyelle McCray
DESCRIPTION:2024 Payne Lecture featuring Dr. Donyelle McCray\nThis year’s Payne lecturer is Dr. Donyelle McCray\, Associate Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. Her scholarship focuses on African American preaching\, sermon genre\, and medieval women’s spirituality. She is the author of The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher. The lecture will be presented in person at Seminary of the Southwest and live-streamed at the ssw.edu website and the Southwest Facebook page. \nView the live-stream for the event here.\nHosted by Seminary of the Southwest’s Board of Trustees\, the Payne Lecture is an annual event that focuses on mission and honors the Rt. Rev. Claude E. Payne\, former chair of the seminary’s board and bishop of the Diocese of Texas\, retired. \nDonyelle McCray studies homiletics and Christian spirituality\, focusing on African American preaching\, sermon genre\, and modes of authority. In her work\, the sermon occupies the shoreline between sacred and profane speech and holds emancipatory potential within Christian liturgies and beyond them.  She writes about the ways African American women and lay people use the sermon to play\, remember\, invent\, and disrupt. Her recent book\, The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher\, offers a homiletical reading of Julian’s life and ministry and attends to the relationship between preaching\, embodiment\, and authority. Her current research examines the preaching and spirituality of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. She is also working on a documentary film as part of the Louisville Institute’s Clergy-Scholar Research team on Race\, Church\, and Theological Practices.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/payne-lecture-with-donyelle-mccray/
LOCATION:Knapp Auditorium\, 501 E. 32nd Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alumni Breakfast at the 175th Diocese of Texas Council
DESCRIPTION:  \nSeminary of the Southwest invites you to join the Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge for the annual Alumni Breakfast at the 175th Diocese of Texas Council.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/alumni-breakfast-at-the-175th-diocese-of-texas-council/
LOCATION:Waco Convention Center\, 100 Washington Avenue\, Waco\, TX\, 76701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alumni Breakfast at the 120th Diocese of West Texas Council
DESCRIPTION:Seminary of the Southwest invites you to join us at the Seminary of the Southwest Alumni Breakfast at the 120th Diocese of West Texas Council \nSan Marcos Conference Center \nThe Chaut Room \n1001 E. McCarty Lane \nSan Marcos\, TX. 78666 \nPlease direct questions to Kaye Warren at kaye.warren@ssw.edu \n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/alumni-breakfast-at-the-120th-diocese-of-west-texas-council/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Black Austin - East Austin Walking Tour presented by Counselors for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating Austin’s rich Black History. The event will kickoff with a walking tour of East Austin. This tour will highlight landmarks of historic significance and amplify the voices and stories of those from the community. Following the tour will be opportunities to shop with local Black-owned businesses. \nThere are two tour times: 10am (spaces still available) and 12pm (full). \n \nRegister here\n 
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/celebrate-black-austin-east-austin-walking-tour-presented-by-counselors-for-social-justice/
LOCATION:Kenny Dorham’s Backyard – Diverse Arts\, 1106 East 11th Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78702\, United States
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SUMMARY:Keynote Address with Dr. Renita Weems
DESCRIPTION:2024 Black History Month Keynote Address by Dr. Renita Weems\nKnapp Auditorium\nPlease join us for the BHM Keynote Address facilitated by Dr. Renita Weems. \nThe lecture will begin at 6:45pm and will be live-streamed at the ssw.edu website\, and the Southwest Facebook page. \n \nIn addition to being a former professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School (1987-2004)\, Dr. Renita Weems has taught at Spelman College\, Howard University Divinity School and Memphis Theological Seminary. She grew up in Atlanta\, GA where she attended Atlanta public schools. \nDr. Weems earned a Ph.D. degree at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1989 making her the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in Old Testament Studies. Her dissertation was a trailblazing effort. Writing in an era when women doctoral students hesitated to take on “women’s issue” topics\, and when most male faculty still felt uncertain\, if not uncomfortable\, advising such topics\, Dr. Weems chose to study marriage imagery in the Hebrew prophets. Her work offered careful\, challenging\, and often painful insights into use of this metaphor; moving beyond traditional scholarship\, which had all too easily looked only at the “love” side of the marriage metaphor. Weems was among the first to point to the violence associated with this biblical imagery\, violence acceptable within the prophets’ cultural assumptions about marriage and all too often considered acceptable even in twentieth-century America. Dr. Weems’ 1995 volume Battered Love: Marriage\, Sex\, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets brought this important work to a wide audience\, with powerful hermeneutical reflection on implications for contemporary understandings of God and of marriage. Just A Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible\, published in 1989 along with a host of other articles and books highlighting the questions and experiences that black women bring when reading the Bible has sealed her legacy as a trailblazer in the field of womanist biblical scholarship. Her seminal essay “Reading Her Way: African American Women and the Bible” appeared in the landmark book Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation (1991). Her commentary on the book of “Song of Songs” in the New Interpreter’s Bible (1997) remains an important resource for understanding biblical notions of love\, sex and human sexuality. \nFinally\, Dr. Weems is a biblical scholar\, a minister\, and an author whose scholarly insights into modern faith\, biblical texts\, and the role of spirituality in everyday lives has made her a highly sought-after writer and speaker for more than four decades. She has numerous books\, commentaries and articles on the Bible and prophetic religion to her credit. She has written multiple articles and essays for academics\, preachers and lay audiences on topics of faith\, prophetic religion\, Christian ethics\, biblical notions of justice\, women’s spirituality\, and the Bible and human sexuality. She is the first Black woman to deliver the Yale University Lyman Beecher Lecture (2008). Dr. Weems is featured in “Black Stars: African American Religious Leaders” (2008)\, a collection of biographies of some of the most important Black Religious Leaders over the last 200 hundred years\, including such impressive figures as Adam Clayton Powell\, Elijah Muhammad\, Sojourner Truth\, Howard Thurman\, and Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.
URL:https://ssw.edu/event/keynote-address-with-the-rev-dr-renita-weems/
LOCATION:Knapp Auditorium\, 501 E. 32nd Street\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
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