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Spring 2025 Holmes Lecture
February 10 @ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
MTS Community,
Memphis Theological Seminary, in collaboration with Metropolitan Baptist Church, is pleased to welcome Rev. Dr. Melanie Jones Quarles as the speaker for the Spring 2025 Holmes Lecture. This will take place on Monday, February 10 at 6:30pm CDT at Metropolitan Baptist Church (767 Walker Avenue, Memphis, TN 38126) and via online.
See Melanie’s bio below.
To register for the event, you must complete this form: https://forms.gle/ttvEqjRrCuLB8tEL7.
Help us get the word out by sharing the attached promo flyer!
Lastly, please save the date for our 2025 Todd Lecture with Dr. Louis Stulman. This will take place on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30pm and his lecture is entitled “Jeremiah’s Pathways to Hope Amid Worlds of Chaos and Loss.”
The Reverend Melanie Jones Quarles, Ph.D., is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. Melanie is Assistant Professor of Ethics, Theology, and Culture and the Inaugural Director of the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA. Melanie is a thinking woman of faith embodying radical love and revolutionary justice in the academy, Church, and global community.
She earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Howard University, a Master of Divinity with a certificate in Black Church Studies from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ethics, Theology, and Culture with a concentration in Black Faith & Life at Chicago Theological Seminary. Melanie’s research engages womanist theological ethics and sacred texts, millennials and faith, Black aesthetics, and digital technocultures, earning her several notable fellowships and scholarships. Her first academic monograph, Up Against A Crooked Gospel: Black Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Redemption (Orbis Books, 2024), is available via OrbisBooks.com, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
For MTS Master’s Students: This event is worth 1 colloquia credit for MTS MDiv and MACM students (MDiv requires 8; MACM requires 6). To receive credit, students must **register with their MTS email addresses**, indicate on the form that they are seeking colloquia credit, and attend the lecture event by signing in if they attend in-person or by confirmation of the Registrar if attending online.
We look forward to seeing you all there!