Chanequa Walker-Barnes Presents the 2018 Schaff Lectures on "Race, Gender, and the Imago Dei"

The 2018 Schaff Lectures were held May 2 at PTS. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, presented "Race, Gender, and the Imago Dei.” During this time together Dr. Powe discussed race through a Wesleyan lens with the goal of a more fruitful dialogue.

"Until All of Us Are Free: How Racial Reconciliation Fails Black Women"

This lecture explores how the Christian racial reconciliation movement has failed Black women and other women of color through its patriarchal bias and single-axis thinking about race. It demonstrates how intersectionality theory provides a fuller understanding of the dynamics of race and racism, and how they intersect with gender to impact the lives of Black women.

 "Tell the Storm I’m New: What Real Reconciliation Looks Like"

This lecture draws upon Alice Walker’s The Color Purple to articulate a womanist theory of racial justice and racial reconciliation.