Yolanda Pierce, PhD

@ynpierce.bsky.social

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Professor, Dean, womanist theologian, Black Church historian, activist, displaced New Yorker, Alpha Kappa Alpha, writer, lover of words.

Poem from Lucille Clifton which reads: "they ask me to remember, but they want me to remember their memories, and I keep on remembering mine."
Image of a church; pictures of speakers. Symposium on artificial intelligence and Black religion
The Wounds are the Witness book cover. It is a homemade quilt, with pink, purple, and blue fabric.
“In whatever sense this year is a New Year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and with gratitude.” #HowardThurman
May the real work of Christmas begin: the healing, the rebuilding, and the peacemaking. #MerryChristmas
Christmas is the brooding Presence of the Eternal Spirit making the crooked paths straight, rough places smooth, tired hearts refreshed, dead hopes stir with newness of life. It is the promise of tomorrow at the close of everyday, the movement of life in defiance of death, and the assurance that love is sturdier than hate, that right is more confident than wrong, that good is more permanent than evil. ~Howard Thurman
Soundproof booth at Blackbird Studios in Nashville where I am recording an audiobook.