Dr. Emilie M. Townes
St. Paul School of Theology
5123 Truman Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
816/483-9600
Dr. Emilie Maureen Townes, an ordained American Baptist clergywoman, holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and received her Ph.D. in Religion in Society and Personality from Northwestern University. She has served as an instructor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University, an adjunct professor of ethics and society at Garrett-Evangelical and was a member of the field education staff. She has also been an adjunct professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. She also served as interim pastoral leader of Christ the Redeemer Metropolitan Community Church for three years. She is a past chair of the Board of Directors of reStart, Inc. an interfaith agency for the homeless.
Dr. Townes is a member of The Society of Christian Ethics, The Society for the Study of Black Religion, the American Academy of Religion and the Ministers Council of the American Baptist Churches. Her primary area of concern is African-American women in the church. Her writing, teaching and activism have centered on this and drawing the linkages among race, gender, class and other forms of oppression. Her most recent book, Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: A Womanist Ethic of Care, will be published in the Fall of 1998.
