Emilie Townes Introduces Womanist Theology: Homebrewed Christianity 69
By Tripp Fuller • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: podcast
What a treat we have this week! None other than Emilie Townes, ground breaking theologian, Baptist minister, and now Homebrewed Christianity guest. Ever since I met her last March at the Transforming Theology conference I knew she needed to be on the podcast. There I was able to interview her for a video series that will be released soon and in the process of conversing with her it was clear that she had a remarkable gift to communicate both her theological insights and passionate faith in thought-provoking ways. She did not disappoint.
In the interview we discuss the development of Womanist theology, a piece of one of my favorite social ethics text – Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil – and she gives bite size responses to the big 7 questions of theology discussed in Philip and my new book.
From the intro….
- Nickels of the N\J podcast has indeed confirmed that over the holidays he will be getting on skype to be issued an HBC whoopin @ paper, rock, scissors.
- This may be due to the sheer force of the HBC Deaconate. Our refusal to use his real name and title of his book is seeping out into the world wide web.
- An example……Deacon Blundell tweeted “The Hopeless Skeptic by @nicholasfiedler is out http://bit.ly/92SCBk // looking forward to reading it.” Notice the two jokes our Deacon has sent!!!! Then Nickels is unable to contain himself and responds by correcting the misspelled title (as if it wasn’t intentional).
- Deacon Blundell has his first piece of fiction out (correctly) titled, St. Peter’s Brewery. Check it out (and specifically page 94!)
Tripp Fuller is married to an awesome lady Alecia and has a handsome little baby boy named Elgin Thomas (aka E.T.) and Pebbles, the Schnoodle. He and Alecia are both graduates of Campbell University (where they met), the Divinity School of Wake Forest University and ordained ministers. He is working on his PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. A few other things he digs are books, cigars, pipes, Shaq, guitar, pirates, fishing, the Counting Crows, and good conversations about Religion and Politics. The podcast is the most time consuming hobby he has ever had besides reading and blogging through Wolfhart Pannenberg's 3 volume systematic theology. Follow Tripp on Twitter | Tripp on Facebook
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I hope I am not being disrespectful when I say that Emilie Townes is my kind of woman. The way she speaks and what she says really resonated with me. She talked about Everydayness; goodness in our actions, spending each day finding out what God would have us to do and doing it. This she says, is not a heavy thing to do but one that is intentional by us and eventually brings us an attitude of joy. We are encouraged to encourage others to think about our every moment. Where is God in that moment? I have found that thinking about God as I go through each moment of the day brings things out into the open and I see and experience so many tiny wonderful gifts from God when I do this (this is my thought). We can take command of our lives, she says. Salvation is not a past tense, it is an ongoing process. One of the things she mentiones about the church is that a church is a place where everybody is somebody. When asked about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit and other things she responded that God is a presence; in us, around us, over us, beneath us, etc. It is the Holy Spirit that helps her to get up in the morning and she can be hopeful. For her, goodness should be in our actions and we have the ability to choose what those actions will be. I would love to hear more from her.
Did I just hear a Baptist reference the Wesleyan quadrilateral? Where I come from that is almost tantamount to the lion lying with the lamb.
I like posing the “big questions” at the end, btw.
This was just what I needed for a long long drive in the snow. What a great interview. Added Dr. Townes to my Christmas book list.