We continue with our series Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda and are delighted to have The Rev. Wil Gafney back on the podcast. Her unique approach to The Bible in regards to Race, Gender, and Culture have been a blessing in my own "faith journey." We discuss her ideas on Feminism, Race and Politics as well as her book Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne.

We continue with our series Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda and are delighted to have The Rev. Wil Gafney back on the podcast. Her unique approach to The Bible  in regards to Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Culture have been a blessing in my own “faith journey.” We discuss her ideas on Feminism, Race and Politics as well as her book Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne.

About The Rev. Wil Gafney:


Will Gafney photographed in Fort Worth, Texas on March 27, 2015. (Photo by/Sharon Ellman)


The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Forth Worth, Texas. She is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel and co-editor of The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. She is an Episcopal Priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Forth Worth. A former member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan of the Germantown Jewish Center in Philadelphia, she has co-taught courses with and for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary in Wyncote, PA.


Follow Rev. Wil Gafney on Twitter at @WilGafney

Further reading, sermons and information over at www.wilgafney.com


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Coming Soon: ‘Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne’, available in paperback from WJK Books, out August 1, 2017!


 


 


 


 


 


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“A Song That Will Help You Remember To Forget (Echo Grid remix)” by Slow Dancing Society from the album The Sound of Lights When Dim (2017 Remaster)

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