For many Americans, news reporting that at least seven predominantly black churches have been destroyed by fire since the horrific murders at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month feels like…
Katie Day
Katie Day is the Charles A. Schieren Professor of Church and Society at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Prof. Day was a founding member of the Global Network for Public Theology. Currently she is co-editing the Brill Companion on Public Theology, to be published in 2016. In addition to her research on urban religion, Prof. Day has conducted major studies of faith-based community organizing, Black Church arsons and the volunteer effort to rebuild them, religious responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and religious social service agencies. Currently she is conducting research on “God and Guns,” looking at the role of religion in the construction of meaning and public discourse on guns.
