| The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston will welcome womanist biblical scholar, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. to lecture and preach on March 12 and 13, 2022. Dr. Gafney is featured in an article and on the cover of the current issue of “The Christian Century.” |
Dr. Gafney is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She is the author of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and of the Throne, a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah in the Wisdom series; Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel; and co-editor of The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. She is currently writing a second volume of Womanist Midrash focusing on women in the Prophets.
Saturday, March 12, 2022; 10:00 a.m. – Noon
Lecture and Workshop
“A Women’s Lectionary: Translating for Thirsty Ears and Hungry Eyes”
Dr. Gafney is the author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church and translator of its biblical selections; the first two volumes, Year A and W (a stand-alone volume) were published in August. Volumes B and C are due in 2023 and 2024.
In person at the church or livestreamed https://boxcast.tv/view/a-womens-lectionary-translating-for-thirsty-ears-and-hungry-eyes-a-lecture-by-dr-wilda-gafney-633950
Sunday, March 13, 2022, 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
Worship Services
Dr. Gafney will be preaching using Lenten lessons from her A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church.
Dr. Gafney is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of North Texas, and a former Army chaplain and congregational pastor in the AME Zion Church. 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.
In person at the church or livestreamed https://boxcast.tv/view/first-unitarian-universalist-church-of-houston-livestream-930-434365
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, 5200 Fannin St., Houston, TX 77004