Tippy McMichael Lecture Series Welcomes the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
Hearing Scripture Anew with A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church
Saturday, March 4, 2023
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Lecture
Parish Hall + YouTube Livestream
A Day in A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church
Sunday, March 5, 2023
10:00 am Adult Forum
Parish Hall + YouTube Livestream
The Tippy McMichael Lecture Series is delighted to welcome Episcopal priest, womanist biblical scholar, professor, translator, and author, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.
Saturday’s event includes a reception at 6:00 pm, followed by the lecture at 7:00 pm on Hearing Scripture Anew with A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church.
Sunday’s lecture, A Day in A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, begins at 10:00 am.
Both days’ events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Nursery is available.
You may also participate online by viewing a livestream of the event on our YouTube channel.
About Wil Gafney
Womanist biblical scholar, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She 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 is near completion and C is due in 2024. 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. She is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of 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. She is a preacher, teacher, amateur watercolorist and activist.
