Iliff School of Theology

Pulpit +Exchange Presents: A Workshop with Dr. Jared Vázquez López
2023-08-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Come focus on justice work with nourishing food, an insightful lecture, and inspiring conversations.
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About this event
Title: “Must I behave? : Unorthodox disruptions as queer faith practice.
Thinking critically about how queerness can transcend faith practice and the ways in which we are compelled into certain styles of practice that foreclose on the prophetic potential of queer spirituality
Pulpit+ Exchange Series
During an April 17, 1960, “Meet the Press” interview, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that 11 o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours in Christian America.” Sadly, Dr. King’s speech sounds like it was delivered yesterday. In large part, this shameful tragedy remains in 2023. Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) is designed to help ordained clergy and lay leaders interrogate this continued status in American churches. It is also designed to place new foundations for education, dialogue, action, and growth within and between congregations.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). The lecture will begin at 5:30 pm. An opportunity to ask Dr. Vázquez López questions and engage in discussions with colleagues will follow.
About the Lecturer
Dr. Jared Vázquez López is a freelance diversity and inclusion consultant. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology, Philosophy, and Cultural Theory at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver. His scholarly interests lie in bodies, sexuality, identity, culture, language, and religious experience. His primary fields of study include continental philosophy, cultural and queer theory, Latinx studies, critical race theory, and Pentecostal studies. He has been a fellow at the Human Rights Campaign Summer Institute of the Religion and Faith Program and the Hispanic Theological Initiative at Princeton. Jared has over 10 years of experience in leading, facilitating and developing dialogue around diversity, equity and inclusion in both religious and non-religious spaces. He has taught in formal and informal settings as both faculty and consultant. As an adjunct professor at the Iliff School of Theology Jared teaches a diverse population of students how to better engage and lead their churches and communities with regard to issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. This work reflects Jared’s passion of bringing people together to have dialogue that matters across differences, as well as his academic work, which has focused on theologies of inclusion and the effects of religious and social politics on the lives of queer folk and people of color.

Virtual Time to Apply webinar
2023-06-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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Commencement at 10am, St. Andrew UMC, located at 9203 S University Blvd, in Highlands Ranch
2023-06-02 10:00 - 12:00 | CO
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Alumni/ae Celebration
2023-05-30 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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About this event
Your and your family are invited to celebrate with your fellow Iliff alumni/ae as we bring the 2022-2023 academic year to a close! We will recognize our alumni/ae who have reached milestone anniversaries and enjoy refreshments as an alumni/ae community.

Pulpit+ Exchange Presents: Dr. Albert Hernandez
2023-05-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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The Holy Spirit Throughout History – Join us one week before Pentecost 2023 for great food, informative teaching, and robust discussion.
About the Evening’s Lecture
Why does the Holy Spirit show up in such mysterious and vastly different ways across history? Why did John Wesley hold such reverence for the importance of spiritual experience in Christian ministry and education? Why do annual commemorations of Pentecost often spark creative re-interpretations of tradition among so many reformers, dissenters, and visionaries while crying out prophetically against oppression and injustice in their own times? Join us one week before Pentecost 2023, for a lively discussion about these ancient legacies and their continued role in Christian revitalization and healing based on Hernández’ book, Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost (Emeth Press, 2011).
About Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations of people who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). The lecture will begin at 5:30 pm. An opportunity to ask Dr. Hernández questions and engage in discussions with colleagues will follow.
About the Evening’s Lecturer
Hernández joined the Iliff faculty in 2001. He teaches courses in the history of Christianity from Medieval to Early Modern times with additional expertise in the history of the ancient Hellenistic-Roman period. His research and teaching areas include the history of mysticism and pneumatology; Muslim and Christian relations beginning with the Crusades; religious diversity in medieval Iberia and the Spanish Empire; and the history of medicine and pandemics. Hernández led the faculty design team that created the Authentic Engagement Program™ focusing his contribution on human flourishing and the philosophy of Happiness.
Hernández is the author of Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost (Emeth Press), and co-author with Miguel De La Torre of The Quest for the Historical Satan (Fortress Press), a theological best-seller exploring Satan’s story and the problem of evil. He has addressed local, regional, and national gatherings and religious organizations about the legacies of the Crusades and Medieval Spain for a pluralistic, interreligious post-9/11 world.
Hernández served as Iliff’s senior vice president for academic affairs and faculty dean from 2009 to 2017. His administrative service included serving as interim president, chief operations officer, and associate dean for academic affairs. He has over thirty years of experience in different educational settings as an administrator, curriculum developer, and successful change-agent for organizational management systems. His current writing projects and recent classes focus on medical history and spiritual healing; Italian Renaissance humanism after the Black Death; mysticism in the Spanish Reformation; and the history of social justice.

Vincent Harding Day 2023
2023-05-19 09:00 - 18:00 | CO
Time
Friday, May 19, 9am – 6pm
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Guests/Presenters
9 am-Noon
Dr. Rachel Harding, Chair of Ethnic Studies UC Denver
Dr. Tink Tinker, Professor Emeritus Iliff School of Theology
Gloria Smith, Moderator, Clearness Committee Discernment
Min. Darryl J. Walker, Minister of Worship and Arts at Parkhill United Methodist Church
Special Performances by The Jarrett Rashad Dance Theater
Noon- 1 pm (Lunch Provided)
1 pm-3 pm
Ann Dunlap. Herbalist, Ordained Minister United Church of Christ
Jon Hurst, Iliff MDiv Student ’25, Visual Artist, Co-Chair NAPAS at Iliff School of Theology
3 pm-4 pm (Break and Veterans of Hope Viewing)
4 pm-6 pm (Panel Discussion)
Lex Dunbar, MDiv Student ’23 Co-Chair NAPAS at Iliff School of Theology
Dr. Maribel Morey, Executive Director of the Miami Institute for Social Sciences
Dr. Stacey Floyd-Thomas Associate Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University

"Innovating and Transforming: The Purpose of Institutions in the 21st Century" Panel Discussion
2023-05-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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About this event
We live in an age of growing mistrust in institutions of many kinds. Dynamic schools, faith communities, and not-for-profits are engaging these challenges through innovation and critical reflection so that they might better serve a rapidly changing world. Our distinguished panel will explore new visions and processes that hold the promise of institutional renewal and creative contributions to current contexts.
This is a free, in-person event that is open to the public.

Tom Wolfe Giving Days
2023-05-17 - 2023-05-18 | CO
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Celebrate Tom Wolfe with Us!
May 17th and 18th (all day)
Join us in celebrating the work and legacy of Pres. Wolfe with a gift to Iliff in his honor!

Pulpit+ Exchange Presents: Dr. Antony Alumkal
2023-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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The Evening’s Lecture
“Why Progressive Christianity Isn’t Progressive Enough (And What It Would Take To Fix It)” with Dr. Antony Alumkal, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Iliff School of Theology
The movement known as Progressive Christianity presents itself as advancing the Christian tradition by integrating cutting-edge knowledge and abandoning the oppressive tendencies of conservative forms of Christianity. But a critical look at the movement reveals that it is rife with white, male, and middle-class privilege. Additionally, movement leaders have often relied on outdated scholarship and mirrored the thinking of the Christian Right.
We will discuss three of Progressive Christianity’s formative figures—Jesus Seminar founder Robert Funk, biblical scholar Marcus Borg, and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong—and how their ideas failed to live up to the “progressive” label. We will then consider what a new Progressive Christianity 2.0 movement would need to do to avoid the shortcomings of its predecessor.
Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). The lecture will begin at 5:30 pm. An opportunity to ask Dr. Alumkal questions and engage in discussions with colleagues will follow.
About the Lecturer
Antony Alumkal’s research interests include the influence of race on religion in the United States, the pseudoscientific and conspiratorial thinking of the American Christian Right, and how the “Progressive Christianity” movement mirrors the fundamentalism that it criticizes. His book Paranoid Science: The Christian Right’s War on Reality has been praised by sociologists and science educators while condemned by the Christian Right leaders whose lies he exposed.
https://ncse.ngo/preview-paranoid-science
His courses explore religion as a social phenomenon in the contemporary world. Recent courses taught include:

Congregations
Liberal and Evangelical Protestantism in the United States
Atheists, Secularists, and Nones
SJE Seminar: Christian Bioethics Debates

“Following Iliff’s Purpose and Vision Statement for me means insisting on the truth in an increasingly post-truth world.”

In Person Accepted Student Gathering
2023-04-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

(VIRTUAL)Black Women's Wisdom: Everyday Mysticism as Revolutionary Praxis
2023-04-27 18:30 - 19:30 | CO
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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Harding and Dr. Fermin to explore how engaging in mysticism influences and sustains us for justice work!
More about our speakers:
Rachel Elizabeth Harding, Ph.D. (she/her) is a poet, historian and scholar of religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Harding chairs the Ethnic Studies department of the University of Colorado Denver and writes about religion, creativity and social justice in the experience of communities of African descent in the US and Brazil. Dr. Harding is author of two books: A Refuge in Thunder, a history of the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé; and more recently, Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism and Mothering, co-written with her mother, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, on the role of compassion and mysticism in African American social justice organizing.
Dr. Harding is an ebômi (ritual elder) in the Terreiro do Cobre Candomblé community in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Harding’s honors include Cave Canem Fellowships, the Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Williams College, an honorary doctorate from the Starr-King School for the Ministry and the Civil Rights Award from the Colorado Black Roundtable.
Baranda J. Fermin, Ph.D. (they/them) is a writer, speaker, yoga teacher, pastor and community curator. Their professional work builds the human capacity and organizational potential for transformative change, leading to whole, healthy, loving and creative relationships and communities. As an accomplished leader in the fields of community development, nonprofit leadership, higher education, as well as equity and access, their expertise has shifted the way that communities engage in development, change agents create strategy, and leaders measure outcomes. Dr. Fermin holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University; a master’s in Human Development from Teachers College, Columbia University; a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from The University of Oklahoma; and is completing her Master of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology.
Dr. Baranda teaches Cultural Intelligence for the WPI Leadership Academy.
Event is sponsored by:
Iliff School of Theology -Student Senate
University College at University of Denver

Everding Public Lecture - Dr. Jasmin Zine
2023-04-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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Dr. Jasmin Zine will discuss her book, Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jasmin Zine is the 2023 Everding Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Zine is Professor of Sociology & Religion & Culture (Muslim Studies) at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada. As an Everding Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Zine will give a public lecture on Tuesday, April 25 at 7 p.m. (MDT) in Shattuck Hall at Iliff School of Theology. The title of her lecture is “Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation”. Please RSVP for the lecture here: Everding Lecture Dr. Jasmin Zine
More about our speakers:
Dr. Zine is author of the book: Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation, (McGill-Queens University
Press, 2022) based on a 6-year study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC). She is also author of another SSHRC funded study mapping the Canadian Islamophobia Industry
that examines organized networks of anti-Muslim bigotry.
As a public intellectual she served as the co-chair of the Islamophobia sub-committee of the Ontario
Anti-Racism Directorate and has testified at the 2017 Canadian Heritage Parliamentary sub-committee
meetings on Motion 103 addressing Islamophobia, systemic racism, and religious discrimination as well as the
2019 Parliamentary Hearings on On-Line Hate. Dr. Zine also presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on
Freedom of Religion or Belief regarding Islamophobia in Canada and was an invited speaker at the National
Summit on Islamophobia in 2021. She has testified twice about her research before the Canadian Senate
hearings on Islamophobia in 2022-23.
Dr. Zine was a faculty member in the Critical Muslim Studies Institute on Decolonial Struggles and Liberation
Theologies in Granada, Spain. She is co-founder of the International Islamophobia Studies Research
Association (ISSRA). In Canada, she served as the co-chair of the Islamophobia sub-committee of the Ontario
Anti-Racism Directorate.
The Everding Distinguished Lectureship was created in partnership between Iliff and Saint John’s Episcopal
Cathedral of Denver, supported by the annual fund from Ms. Lee Everding, a member of the Cathedral, whose
late husband was a dean at Iliff. This lecture series seeks to educate the community on inter-religious and
intercultural topics while nurturing the spiritual life of both communities.

Virtual Open House
2023-04-22 10:00 - 13:00, 2023-02-18 10:00 - 22:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

In Person Open House
2023-04-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

April Renewal: What Now? Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Nation
2023-04-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
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April Renewal: What Now? Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Nation
Presenters:
Briana Simmons (she/her), Black Health & Reproductive Justice Coordinator, Soul 2 Soul Sisters
Lauren Smith (she/her), Black Civic Engagement & Policy Manager, Soul 2 Soul Sisters
Registration Fee:
$5 | Free for all students and Iliff faculty and staff
An additional donation is welcome.

Virtual Financial Aid 101
2023-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

Pulpit+ Exchange Presents: Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre - "Sex is Great"
2023-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
Come for a light meal, listen to an informative lecture, stay for a challenging discussion, and leave inspired to work for justice.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). Dr. De La Torre will begin his lecture (“Sex is Great”) at 5:30 pm with a question and answer session following.
About the Lecturer
Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre – international scholar, documentarian, novelist, academic author, and scholar activist. The focus of Dr. De La Torre’s academic pursuit is social ethics within contemporary U.S. thought, specifically how religion affects race, class, and gender oppression. Since obtaining his doctoral in 1999, he has authored over a hundred articles and published forty-one books (six of which won national awards).
He presently serves as Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. A Fulbright scholar, he has taught in Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Germany; and lectured in Costa Rica, Cuba, Palestine, Thailand, Taiwan. Within his guild he served as the 2012 President of the Society of Christian Ethics. He is the recipient of the 2020 AAR Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2021 Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award. Within the academy, he served as a past-director to the American Academy of Religion, and served on the editorial board of JAAR. Additionally, he was the co-founder and executive director (2013-2017) of the Society of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion and the founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. Dr. De La Torre has written numerous articles in popular media and has served on several civic organizations.
Recently, he wrote the screenplay to a documentary on immigration (http://www.trailsofhopeandterrorthemovie.com/) which has screened in over eighteen film festivals winning over seven awards. Additionally, he has written an autofiction magical realism novel.

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Virtual Info Session: Master of Arts in Social Justice and Ethics
2023-03-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

Virtual Info Session: Master of Theological Studies
2023-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

Pulpit+ Exchange Presents: Dr. Tink Tinker (wazhazhe / Osage Nation)
2023-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Come for a light meal, listen to an informative lecture, stay for a challenging discussion, and leave inspired to work for justice.
The Evening’s Lecture
“LandBack: Worldview, Relationship, and an American Indian Perspective on Land Acknowledgements” with Dr. Tink TInker (wazhazhe/Osage Nation), Professor Emeritus of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions
Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). The lecture, “LandBack: Worldview, Relationship, and an American Indian Perspective on Land Acknowledgements” with Dr. Tink TInker (wazhazhe/Osage Nation), Professor Emeritus of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions, will begin at 5:30 pm. An opportunity to ask Dr. Tinker questions and engage in discussions with colleagues will follow.
About the Lecturer
A member of the faculty since 1985, Tink Tinker teaches courses in American Indian cultures, history, and religious traditions; cross-cultural and Third-World theologies; and justice and peace studies and is a frequent speaker on these topics both in the U.S. and internationally. His publications include American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (2008); Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation(2004); and Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide (1993). He co-authored A Native American Theology (2001); and he is co-editor of Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance (2003), and Fortress Press’ Peoples’ Bible (2008).
Dr. Tinker has volunteered in the Indian community as (non–stipendiary) director of Four Winds American Indian Survival Project in Denver for two decades. In that capacity he functions in the urban Indian community as a traditional American Indian spiritual leader. He is past president of the Native American Theological Association and a member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians.
Firmly committed to the ecumenical movement, he has been active in volunteer capacities with several denominations at the national level, the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. He currently serves as an “Honorary Advisor” to IMADR, the International Movement against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism; and he also serves locally on the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. On campus, Tinker works closely both with students of color and with Lutheran students.
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Virtual Info Session: Master of Divinity
2023-03-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

Virtual Info Session: Master of Arts in Pastoral and Spiritual Care
2023-03-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States

Race, Racialization, and the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Amy Erickson
2023-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Come for a light meal, listen to an informative lecture, stay for a challenging discussion, and leave inspired to work for justice.
Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
About the Evening’s Agenda
Join other clergy and lay leaders for a light meal from 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm (MST). The lecture, Race, Racialization, and the Hebrew Bible: How the Queen of Sheba became “black and beautiful”, the mark of Cain came to sanction slavery, and Hagar emerged as a womanist icon, with Dr. Amy Erickson, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Master of Theological Studies Program, will begin at 5:30 pm.
About the Lecturer
Amy Erickson is professor of Hebrew Bible and the director of the Master of Theological Studies (MTS) program at the Iliff School of Theology. She has a BA from Bates College, an MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary, and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Erickson teaches a range of courses in biblical interpretation, including The Body and Sexuality in the Hebrew Bible, The Hebrew Bible and Ecology, and Jonah and Its Afterlives. Her research interests include Hebrew poetry, poetic and mythological texts in ancient West Asian literature, and the history of interpretation of the Hebrew Bible.
Erickson has recently completed a commentary on the book of Jonah and its history of interpretation entitled Jonah: Introduction and Commentary (Illuminations; Eerdmans, 2021 — https://eerdword.com/jonah-introduction-and-commentary/), and has written articles on Job, Jonah, the Psalms, Zechariah, and Amos for academic journals and edited volumes. She is a regular contributor to workingpreacher.org, the Huffington Post ON Scripture, The Christian Century, and The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (de Gruyter).
Additional Links
Interview with Eerdmans Pub. : https://eerdword.com/erickson/
Commentary on Psalm 146 (Sept 29, 2019)
https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-26-3/commentary-on-psalm-146-12
Commentary on Psalm 121 (October 20, 2019)
https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-29-3/commentary-on-psalm-121-7
Commentary on Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-27/commentary-on-exodus-201-4-7-9-12-20-2
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Renewal 2023: What Now? The Church in the Post-Covid World via Zoom
2023-02-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Presenters:
Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter, founder of Creating a Culture of Renewal and author of Forging a New Path: Moving the Church Forward in a Post-Pandemic World
Registration Fee:
$5 | Free for all students and Iliff faculty and staff
An additional donation is welcome.
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Douglass Day 2023 - Celebrate, Sing, Remember, Transcribe, Compete, and Eat
2023-02-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Come Celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass through song, speech, transcription, competition, food, and drink.
We will gather to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass. Douglass Day 2023 will include transcribing, singing, eating, and a Frederick Douglass Cake decorating competition. Come ready to experience unspeakable joy!

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Iliff Pulpit+ Exchange with Dr. Eric C. Smith
2023-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Pulpit+ Exchange Presents: “How The New Testament Became White (And How To Start Reading It Differently)” with Dr. Eric C. Smith
Pulpit+ Exchange
Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series (supported by the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative from Lilly Endowment Inc.) provides space for a diverse array of ordained clergy and lay leaders to gather for a meal and grapple with challenging issues. One of the main goals of the Pulpit+ Exchange is to build congregations who will authentically study, worship, walk, and act together across difference to create a just and equitable world.
Come for a light meal (5:00 pm -5:30 pm MT) and stay for a lecture with a Q&A session to follow (5:30 pm – 7:00 pm MT).
About The Night’s Lecture
“How The New Testament Became White (And How To Start Reading It Differently)” with Dr. Eric C. Smith, Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Contemporary Christian Practices
When white supremacists massed in Charlottesville for the Unite the Right rally in 2017, citations from the New Testament covered their placards. When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in 2021, they quoted the New Testament as justification. Before a man opened fire at a synagogue near San Diego in 2019, he posted a manifesto that included passages from Matthew, John, 1 Thessalonians, and Revelation. Incident after incident has shown how entangled white supremacy is with Christianity and its texts. But it’s not just acts of violence where racism and the New Testament show up together. Similar (but subtler) patterns can be found in local congregations, Christian education curricula, seminary classrooms, and the scholarly field of biblical studies itself. In recent years, some biblical scholars have begun to grapple with this problem, pointing out places where white supremacy permeates the study of the New Testament and asking whether it’s possible to ever study and read the text apart from patterns of domination. This evening, we will examine how the New Testament is recruited and claimed by white supremacy and used by white supremacists, and how scholars, pastors, students, and laity can begin reading it differently.
About the Lecturer
Dr. Eric Smith, Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Contemporary Christian Practices, teaches in the fields of biblical studies and early Christianity, co-directs Iliff’s Doctor of Ministry in Prophetic Leadership program, and serves as liaison to the Disciples Seminary Foundation. His research and teaching center on a constellation of interests in the world of late antiquity, including identity formation, material culture and materialist approaches to religion, and both ancient and modern interpretations of biblical texts.
Smith is the author of four books and several articles and chapters. His book Sovereignties, Spaces, Subjects, and Spirits: The Necropolitics of the Acts of the Apostles (SBL Press, forthcoming) undertakes a postcolonial reading of the violence and belonging embedded in the text of Acts. An earlier book, Jewish Glass and Christian Stone: A Materialist Mapping of the Parting of the Ways (Routledge 2018) examines material objects as markers of identities in Judeo-Christianity to tell the story of the “parting of the ways” through the material lives of Jews and Christians. Aimed to popular audiences, Paul the Progressive? The Compassionate Christian’s Guide to Reclaiming the Apostle as an Ally (Chalice 2019) attempts to reclaim the apostle Paul for progressive Christian communities. Recent and forthcoming articles and chapters focus on materialist, postcolonial, and queer methodologies.
Smith is past co-chair of the Early Jewish Christian Relations and Space, Place, and Lived Experience in Antiquity program units of the Society of Biblical Literature, and he currently serves on the Art and Religions of Antiquity program unit. He is the co-editor of the Christianity section of Religion Compass. Smith is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with ministry experience in the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ.
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Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) - "Decisions of a Seventh Generation"
2023-02-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO, 80210, United States
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) Speaks at Iliff – “Decisions of a Seventh Generation”
On this pivotal night, Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) will inform some and remind others that the original agreements and treaties with and between Indigenous nations foundationally were treaties to protect the world and people and to consider the impact on the seventh future generation. Winona will share how these traditional legal canons are being applied today internationally in the work on the Rights of Nature from Bolivia to White Earth in Minnesota. A question and answer session will follow.
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