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Pamela R. Lightsey

Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey is the Associate Dean for Community Life and Lifelong Learning and Clinical Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology and Practice at Boston University’s School of Theology. She is co-chair of AAR’s Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group. Her publications include, “Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology” (Wipf and Stock Publishers), “Reconciliation,” in Radical Evangelical (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) and “If There Should Come a Word” in Black United Methodists Preach! (Abingdon Press).

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Religion Dispatches
On one of the most sacred days of observance in African American history, Juneteenth, the United Methodist Church has unveiled its Dismantling Racism Initiative. The goal of the plan is “to galvanize…
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Religion Dispatches
On Monday, I and a group of womanist Presidents and Deans, decided that we would not be silent as we witnessed the ongoing murders of and harm to Black people by police officers. We began to write a…
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Religion Dispatches
The month of May has marked a decided shift in the strategy for full inclusion of LGBTQ persons within the United Methodist Church (UMC). In the past ten days, more than 126 clergy and candidates for…
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