- Dr. Mitzi J. Smith’s (Pre)Kwanzaa Reflections
At Columbia Theological Seminary’s Chapel Service Sponsored by African Heritage Student AssociationDecember 6, 2022 Family and community foundations; heritage; identify, self-determinization, naming ourselves; generosity, cooperation, cooperative economics; investing in the present, in ourselves, and in future generations; imagination and creativity; and generational healing, and hope––when I hear these words and phrases, I think of legacy. The scripture named in ...
- Detoxifying the Bible Lenten Series
by ©Mitzi J. Smith, PhD (Manuscript from Dr. Mitzi J. Smith’s April 12, 2022 Presentation) It is toxic to marginalize the world in front of the text where we live and where we encounter the living God among us when doing biblical interpretation. When we idolize or deify the biblical text at the expense of prioritizing the violence and ...
- Reflections on Mary’s Song (“the Magnificat”) (Luke 1:46–55)
by ©Mitzi J. Smith, PhD Magnificat Service, November 29, 2022, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA I have argued that the author of of Luke’s Gospel wants his readers to know or remember that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was an enslaved young female (click here for Bitter the Chastening Rod). In Luke’s Gospel, Mary twice calls herself a δούλη ...
- An Advent Prayer by ©Mitzi J. Smith
An Advent Prayer by ©Mitzi J. Smith, PhD Dear Mother God, Divine Doula, and Midwife Like Mary—the expectant, soon-to-be mother of Jesus of Nazareth We are pregnant with (im)possibilities Because your Spirit overshadows and empowers us to carry its seed Amidst insidious and resilient viruses of self/neighbor-hate, of inequality, of poverty As seeds of the Spirit and people in ...
- Dr. Mitzi J. Smith’s Response to Voices Long Silenced
Dr. Mitzi J Smith’s Response to Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters Through the Centuries by Marion Ann Taylor and Joy A. Schroeder (Westminster John Knox 2022). Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) November, 2022, Female Biblical Interpreters Program Unit. Thank you for this wonderful accessible compilation of women interpreters, many with whom I was not familiar. Thank you for ...
