Prof. Shively Smith Publishes Letter Addressed to President Biden and Vice President Harris
April 19, 2021 – As part of the national campaign 100 days 100 Letters, Assistant Professor of New Testament Shively T. J. Smith has written a letter addressed to the Biden-Harris Administration and members of the 117th Congress. In her letter and accompanying video, she asks the nation’s elected leaders to commit to following Howard Thurman’s principles of “bridge-building and bridge-crossing.”
American Values, Religious Voices is a “national, nonpartisan campaign created from the conviction that scholars who study and teach our diverse religious traditions have something important to say about our shared American values and pressing issues of our day,” according to their website. Letters are written for the first 100 days of the new presidential administration by prominent religious scholars representing Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, and other major religious traditions in the United States.
Read Prof. Smith’s Full Letter