CONVERSATIONS

Jennifer speaks to academic, congregational, and public audiences on scripture and American moral life,
and appears regularly as a guest on podcasts and panels.

SELECTED ESSAYS & CHAPTERS

Jennifer writes on scripture, race, and American moral life for a range of publications. Her work appears in The Christian Century. Jennifer’s scholarly work focuses on contextual biblical hermeneutics, African American religious identity, and thecontemporary uses of the New Testament.

Do Not Disturb: Behold a Woman Whose Enemy is Her Remedy, published in Currents in Theology and Missons

Contributor, Working Preacher

Roll/Role Call: Invocation, Remembrance, Lamentation, published in Feminist Studies in Religion Blog Post

The Stories Our Bodies Tell: Black Bodies That Matter, Black Lives That Matter, published in Do Black Lives Matter?: How Christian Scriptures Speak to Black Empowermentby Lisa M. Bowens, Dennis R. Edwards and Love L. Sechrest

Choosing the Better Part: Cultivating Solidarity in the Face of Racism, published in Journal for the Feminist Studies of Religion Winter, pp. 43-45.

You Can’t See What I Can See’: Reading Black Bodies in Galatians, published in Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation Thirtieth Anniversary Expanded Edition, Cain Hope Felder, ed.

In Christ, but Not of Christ: Reading Identity Differences Differently, published in Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity, Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young Choi, eds., pp. 23-44.

Flowing from Breast to Breast: An Examination of Dis/placed Motherhood in Black and Indian Wet Nurses, published in Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse, Gay Byron and Vanessa Lovelace, eds., pp. 209-238.