David Brandon Smith
@davidbrandonsmith.bsky.social
Presbyterian Minister; Researcher in Church history at Goethe Uni., Frankfurt; Studies Inspector at Adolf Clarenbach Haus, eV; Doctoral Candidate at Uni. Bonn, Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS).
I'm delighted to share this wonderful collection of reflections and sermons delivered at the 2023 Global Institute of Theology of the WCRC - Justice and Witness at the Pacific School of Theology in Suva, Fiji! You can find my contribution on pages 13-55.
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Sermons for an Unsettled World - WCRC
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December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm delighted to share this wonderful collection of reflections and sermons delivered at the 2023 Global Institute of Theology of the WCRC - Justice and Witness at the Pacific School of Theology in Suva, Fiji! You can find my contribution on pages 13-55.
wcrc.eu/resource/ser...
wcrc.eu/resource/ser...
Reposted by David Brandon Smith
📚 Congratulations to BCDSS PhD Researcher Zeynep Y. Gökçe and Junior Professor and BCDSS Alumna Jennifer Leetsch, editors of Vol. 24 in our DSS Series with De Gruyter.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl
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👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl
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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📚 Congratulations to BCDSS PhD Researcher Zeynep Y. Gökçe and Junior Professor and BCDSS Alumna Jennifer Leetsch, editors of Vol. 24 in our DSS Series with De Gruyter.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @unitrier.bsky.social
👉 Read more: buff.ly/O1Plhhl
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @unitrier.bsky.social
Reposted by David Brandon Smith
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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“Whose Prayers did God hear?”
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A
No registration required.
@unibonn.bsky.social
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#BCDSS #DiesAcademicus #Bonn
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A
No registration required.
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
#BCDSS #DiesAcademicus #Bonn
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Whose Prayers did God hear?”
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A
No registration required.
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
#BCDSS #DiesAcademicus #Bonn
Join us on 3 Dec, 7 PM @ Schlosskirche for talks, interviews, and interactive reflections on Christianity’s historical entanglements with slavery.
More info: buff.ly/GjjVq3A
No registration required.
@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de
#BCDSS #DiesAcademicus #Bonn
Wenn Sie meine raue Herbstallergie-Stimme und meinen starken Yankee-Akzent ertragen können, könnte Ihnen die heutige Losungsandacht der Hornbacher/Brenchelbach/Althornbach Kirchengemeinde gefallen!
Vielen Dank an meinen Kollegen Pfr. Daniel Seel
für die Einladung!
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Vielen Dank an meinen Kollegen Pfr. Daniel Seel
für die Einladung!
evk-hornbach.de?cat=294
Prot. Kirchengemeinden Hornbach-Brenschelbach und Althornbach
Herzlich willkommen auf unserer Webseite!
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September 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Wenn Sie meine raue Herbstallergie-Stimme und meinen starken Yankee-Akzent ertragen können, könnte Ihnen die heutige Losungsandacht der Hornbacher/Brenchelbach/Althornbach Kirchengemeinde gefallen!
Vielen Dank an meinen Kollegen Pfr. Daniel Seel
für die Einladung!
evk-hornbach.de?cat=294
Vielen Dank an meinen Kollegen Pfr. Daniel Seel
für die Einladung!
evk-hornbach.de?cat=294
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Two inspiring days in Bonn! At “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures,” researchers worldwide explored how knowledge shapes our world. Huge thanks to our joint organizers @IDOS, to our partners @GHL & all who joined!
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@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @idos-research.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Two inspiring days in Bonn! At “Knowledge Dependencies and the Un/Making of Equitable Futures,” researchers worldwide explored how knowledge shapes our world. Huge thanks to our joint organizers @IDOS, to our partners @GHL & all who joined!
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @idos-research.bsky.social
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @idos-research.bsky.social
I'm delighted to share my review of Ulriike Vihervalli's exciting new book, "Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West!"
As always, thank you so much, Victoria Turner and Modern Believing, for this opportunity!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/4
As always, thank you so much, Victoria Turner and Modern Believing, for this opportunity!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/4
Contents | Modern Believing 66, 4
Solidarity is an essential dimension to the thinking and practice of contemporary mission. Grounded in Catholic social teaching, this article argues for the further development of solidarity as a core missiological commitment, which creates the ...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm delighted to share my review of Ulriike Vihervalli's exciting new book, "Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West!"
As always, thank you so much, Victoria Turner and Modern Believing, for this opportunity!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/4
As always, thank you so much, Victoria Turner and Modern Believing, for this opportunity!
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/4
Great talk and discussion!
🎧 If you missed our last Joseph C. Miller Memorial #Lecture by Jeremiah Coogan, you can now find the #recording on #YouTube!
Follow the link 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt00d_xhNEk&t=1s
@universitaetbonn @dfg__public @santaclarauniversity
Follow the link 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt00d_xhNEk&t=1s
@universitaetbonn @dfg__public @santaclarauniversity
Synoptic Work: Roman Slavery, Gospel Writing, and Historical Imagination
YouTube video by Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
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April 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Great talk and discussion!
It was a long journey, but I am so happy this came together!
We are delighted to share the new "Roundtable" on World Christianity and Asymmetrical Dependency in the Journal of World Christianity. It's the result of collaborative efforts between the WCSAD Working Group and partners from around the world.
more 👉 ow.ly/pG7U50VvxYL
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more 👉 ow.ly/pG7U50VvxYL
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April 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
It was a long journey, but I am so happy this came together!
Reposted by David Brandon Smith
📚 #NewBook published by De Gruyter!
Co-edited by #BCDSS member Wolfram Kinzig (Principal Investigator).
This book is volume 14 of the BCDSS book series "#Dependency and #Slavery Studies."
👉 Download via Gold Open Access: ow.ly/xXao50VaWX4
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Co-edited by #BCDSS member Wolfram Kinzig (Principal Investigator).
This book is volume 14 of the BCDSS book series "#Dependency and #Slavery Studies."
👉 Download via Gold Open Access: ow.ly/xXao50VaWX4
@unibonn @dfg__public @degruyter_official
March 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📚 #NewBook published by De Gruyter!
Co-edited by #BCDSS member Wolfram Kinzig (Principal Investigator).
This book is volume 14 of the BCDSS book series "#Dependency and #Slavery Studies."
👉 Download via Gold Open Access: ow.ly/xXao50VaWX4
@unibonn @dfg__public @degruyter_official
Co-edited by #BCDSS member Wolfram Kinzig (Principal Investigator).
This book is volume 14 of the BCDSS book series "#Dependency and #Slavery Studies."
👉 Download via Gold Open Access: ow.ly/xXao50VaWX4
@unibonn @dfg__public @degruyter_official
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We are please to share highlights from the Working Group as our PhD researcher David B. Smith spoke on the #BCDSS panel “#Slavery, #Migration, #Diaspora, and #AsymmetricalDependencies in #WorldChristianity” at the 6th Annual World Christianity Conference, Princeton.
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@dfg.de @unibonn.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
We are please to share highlights from the Working Group as our PhD researcher David B. Smith spoke on the #BCDSS panel “#Slavery, #Migration, #Diaspora, and #AsymmetricalDependencies in #WorldChristianity” at the 6th Annual World Christianity Conference, Princeton.
@dfg.de @unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de @unibonn.bsky.social
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Save the date because this upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Jeremiah Coogan will challenge assumptions in New Testament scholarship, revealing their hidden influence and reimagining gospel composition
📆 31 March 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid Event
👉https://ow.ly/jvxo50UPh1J
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
📆 31 March 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid Event
👉https://ow.ly/jvxo50UPh1J
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Save the date because this upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Jeremiah Coogan will challenge assumptions in New Testament scholarship, revealing their hidden influence and reimagining gospel composition
📆 31 March 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid Event
👉https://ow.ly/jvxo50UPh1J
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
📆 31 March 2025
⏱️ 16:15 CET
❕Hybrid Event
👉https://ow.ly/jvxo50UPh1J
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
It was a privilege to review Travis W. Proctor’s “Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture” for Modern Believing! Thanks, as always, to Victoria Turner for the invitation.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/2
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/2
Liverpool University Press
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It was a privilege to review Travis W. Proctor’s “Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture” for Modern Believing! Thanks, as always, to Victoria Turner for the invitation.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/2
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/mb/66/2
First day in @_NewHavenCT! I managed to make it across the pond and up from Newark in time for service with the Puritans at Center Church on the Green before getting started on a week behind a microfilm machine @YaleDivSchool library!
March 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
First day in @_NewHavenCT! I managed to make it across the pond and up from Newark in time for service with the Puritans at Center Church on the Green before getting started on a week behind a microfilm machine @YaleDivSchool library!
Excited for this! Send me a message if you’re interested in attending.
The World Christianity Studies & Asymmetrical Dependency (WCSAD) Working Group is delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Hanna Reichel to this month's 'Table Talk'.
To register, please send an email to David B. Smith (dsmith@uni-bonn.de).
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @davidbrandonsmith.bsky.social
To register, please send an email to David B. Smith (dsmith@uni-bonn.de).
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @davidbrandonsmith.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Excited for this! Send me a message if you’re interested in attending.
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In our first entry of the year 2025, David B. Smith recaps last year's Dependency Theory and Intersectionality workshop, with many highlights of what was discussed during the event. Click on the link below to read more!
👉https://tinyurl.com/dpndncy
#dependency #intersectionality #slavery
👉https://tinyurl.com/dpndncy
#dependency #intersectionality #slavery
February 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In our first entry of the year 2025, David B. Smith recaps last year's Dependency Theory and Intersectionality workshop, with many highlights of what was discussed during the event. Click on the link below to read more!
👉https://tinyurl.com/dpndncy
#dependency #intersectionality #slavery
👉https://tinyurl.com/dpndncy
#dependency #intersectionality #slavery
Looking forward to this!
The World Christianity Studies & Asymmetrical Dependency (WCSAD) Working Group is delighted to welcome Dr. Robson Pedrosa Costa, to this month's 'Table Talk'.
To register, please send an email to David B. Smith (dsmith@uni-bonn.de).
@dfgpublic.bsky.social @davidbrandonsmith.bsky.social
To register, please send an email to David B. Smith (dsmith@uni-bonn.de).
@dfgpublic.bsky.social @davidbrandonsmith.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Looking forward to this!
On 16 Jul 1978, President Jimmy Carter joined the 20th anniv service of Bonn’s Stimson Memorial Chapel. As shown in the church’s guest book (shared with permission), he was joined by First Lady Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, who had a bit of fun when she signed! RIP.
December 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
On 16 Jul 1978, President Jimmy Carter joined the 20th anniv service of Bonn’s Stimson Memorial Chapel. As shown in the church’s guest book (shared with permission), he was joined by First Lady Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, who had a bit of fun when she signed! RIP.
It’s always a joy to lead worship with the amazing Schlosskirche team!
Merry Christmas (Eve) Frohe Weihnachten aus Bonn!
Merry Christmas (Eve) Frohe Weihnachten aus Bonn!
December 24, 2024 at 5:40 PM
It’s always a joy to lead worship with the amazing Schlosskirche team!
Merry Christmas (Eve) Frohe Weihnachten aus Bonn!
Merry Christmas (Eve) Frohe Weihnachten aus Bonn!