Keri Day is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and a fourth-generation preacher in the Church of God in Christ. In 2023, she was the first Black woman to be promoted to full professor in the 215-year history of Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned an MA in religion and ethics from Yale University Divinity School and a PhD in religion from Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and research interests are in womanist and feminist theologies, social critical theory, cultural studies, economics, and Afro-Pentecostalism. She has authored four academic books, Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America; Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives; Notes of a Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education; and her most recent book, Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging. Day has been recognized by NBC News as one of six Black women at the center of gravity in theological education in America.
I must admit, I have recently become a political and theological realist. Like many Americans, I feel exhausted by the effects of the pandemic, the specter of another Trump presidency, the ongoing state violence against innocent civilians. I feel like I am wandering in the wild, waiting for God to answer injustice. Quite frankly, I […]
