For this episode in our guest series, we have a fantastic conversation with Rev. Nikia Smith Robert Ph.D about her transformative work as an abolitionist. Dr. Robert founded Abolitionist Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization and faith-based abolitionist movement committed to helping churches use public policy and transformative justice strategies to advocate for a more just and equitable society beyond prisons, policing, and punishment. We get into liberation theology, the importance of working together as a community, abolition as religion and also an ethic, and lots of alliteration! Dr. Robert is inspiring, invigorating, and absolutely committed to rethinking the indoctrination of a carceral system. 

Resources:

Emilie Townes: Womanist Ethic and the Cultural  Production of Evil (book)

Traci C. West: Disruptive Christian Ethics: Where Racism and Women’s Lives Matter (book)

Penitence, Plantation and the Penitentiary Harvard Divinity School Journal article

https://nikiasrobert.com/ 

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