Scriptures Everywhere:
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SEASON FOUR – FALL 2026 – CONTINUES! OUR NEXT SESSION IS NOVEMBER 20.

Season Four’s past episodes (1–3) are now live! Find them at our Scriptures Everywhere website, and also at Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

We also hope that you can tune in on Friday, November 20, for the fourth episode of our fall conversations. We began with “Election” as a sign of choice and chosenness, and will continue our conversations during this U.S. midterm election cycle about scriptures, election(s), democracy, and social life. Each month, a different host will lead a discussion that explores meaning-making and power through the theme of election.

Thank you to those who have followed our prior seasons. Please follow us each month as we prepare for our next ISS meeting in Lawrence, Kansas (February 2028).

Season Four, Episode 4 Description/Summary:

For the Fall 2026 season, we explore how scriptures, textual and otherwise, inform the meaning of election and its sociopolitical practices. Recordings of the first three episodes of the season are now available.

We hope you can tune in on Friday, November 20 for the next episode of our fall conversations. For the Fall 2026 season, we consider how scriptures, textual and otherwise, inform the meaning of election and its sociopolitical practices. In our fourth episode, prompted by Clifton L. Granby’s The Racial Politics of Listening (Oxford, 2026), Clifton L. Granby and Julius Crump join Arthur Carter to reconsider deference and the politics of listening.  

Brief Bios of Episode 4’s Speakers:

Clifton L. Granby, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Yale Divinity School and a scholar of Black religious, political, and philosophical thought, with research and teaching in race and religion, ethics, social epistemology, aesthetics, and ecological justice. He holds a PhD in religion, ethics, and politics from Princeton University, and a second PhD in philosophy from the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Racial Politics of Listening: Deference, Power, and Relationality (Oxford University Press, 2026).

Julius Crump, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he was named the inaugural Rev. Raymon L. Pedersen Distinguished Professor in Social Change. His research centers on African-American political theories and philosophies of religion that draw on liberal thought as a basis for social ethics. He holds a PhD in Religion from the University of Chicago.

Arthur Carter, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Director of Black Church Studies at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a PhD in Religion (New Testament) from Vanderbilt University. A contextual biblical scholar, his work addresses New Testament hermeneutics, historiography, and early Christian identities. With transdisciplinary training in diaspora studies, he brings insights from Black Atlantic cultural and discursive traditions to bear on ancient texts and their historical reconstructions.

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