{"id":4637,"date":"2016-11-11T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:01:09","slug":"reconciliation-in-a-broken-world-dr-katherine-bassard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/11\/11\/reconciliation-in-a-broken-world-dr-katherine-bassard\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reconciliation in a Broken World&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Katherine Bassard"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.11.16--KatherineBassardChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>Dr. Katherine Bassard addresses how to live out our ministry of reconciliation in a world that is increasingly polarized, divided and broken. This chapel is part of our ongoing Dialogue on Race and Diversity coordinated by the Black Student Union (<span class=\"caps\">BSU<\/span>) and Multicultural and International Student Services (<span class=\"caps\">MISS<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bassard is a recognized expert in African American Literature. She examines poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by African American women from Maria W. Stewart to Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, discussing how such texts respond as a collective \u201cliterary witness\u201d to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination. Her recent publications include Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women\u2019s Writing and Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible. Dr. Bassard has received numerous awards and grants for her teaching and research efforts, including recognition by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Honor\u2019s College, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, as well as from the Pew and Ford foundations. Holding degrees in English from Wake Forest University, <span class=\"caps\">VCU<\/span> (MA), and Rutgers University (Ph.D.), Dr. Bassard has taught at the University of California Berkeley and since 1999 <span class=\"caps\">VCU<\/span>, where she now serves as senior vice provost for faculty affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.11.16--KatherineBassardChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>Dr. Katherine Bassard addresses how to live out our ministry of reconciliation in a world that is increasingly polarized, divided and broken. This chapel is part of our ongoing Dialogue on Race and Diversity coordinated by the Black Student Union (BSU) and Multicultural and International Student Services (MISS). Dr. Bassard is a recognized expert in....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4865,4864,4867,4866,4333],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","tag-bsu","tag-dialogue-on-race-and-diversity","tag-dr-katherine-bassard","tag-miss","tag-reconciliation","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}