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Wil Gafney

The Rev. Wil Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible , Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas.​ She is the author of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and of the Throne, a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah in the Wisdom Commentary series, Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, and co-editor of The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. She is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Fort Worth, and a former Army Chaplain. She is a regular contributor to Working Preacher​, Sojourners, and Religion Dispatches. She blogs regularly at: wilgafney.com.

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Race Matters: Biblical Representations in the Seminary Classroom


Blog Series: Race Matters in the Classroom
August 27, 2015
Tags: anti-racism   |   teaching with media   |   teaching with the arts   |   embodied teaching

When and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me. Anna Julia Cooper Student enters. Looks at me, looks at other students, looks back at me. Is this room 101? ...

Learning From Each Other: Hevruta


Blog Series: 12 Surprises When Lecturing Less
October 18, 2013
Tags: collaborative learning   |   student learning   |   co-teaching

As the saying goes, “sometimes the old ways are best.” (Eve Moneypenny and James Bond in Skyfall, 2012) Hevruta is a venerable pedagogy that places mutual student learning at the center of the classroom. In rabbinic tradition hevruta (“friend,” “companion”) denotes a pair who read and study sacred texts together.   I ...

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