David Justice, Ph.D.

Full Time Temporary Lecturer in Baylor University's Honors College

Presentations


Selected Presentations

2026
“A Loving Apocalypse: The Militant, Revolutionary Nature of MLK’s Beloved Community”
The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting (January 11: US-DC)
2025
“An Anti-Political Revolution: Reading the Azusa Street Revival and Civil Rights Movement within the Black Radical Tradition”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (November 23: Boston, MA)
“Martin Luther King at the Intersection of the Black Prophetic and Black Liberal Arts Traditions”
MLK and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition Symposium (October 9-11: Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA)
Panelist on “Disrupting White Privilege” 
The Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting (January 11: Chicago, IL)
2024
“Put Jesus Back Into Science: Towards a Collision of Worlds”
 Baylor University Faith and Science Colloquium (February 2: Waco, TX)

2022
 "New Cartographies in Kingian Studies" — Invited Panelist
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (November 19: Denver, CO)

“David Walker's Appeal in Conversation with Wesleyan Christian Perfection as Scriptural Argument for Societal Metanoia.”
 Wesleyan Theological Society Annual Meeting (March 10: online)

2021
“The Sword that Heals: King, the Black Radical Tradition, and the Destructive Power of the Beloved Community.”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (November 22: San Antonio, TX)

“From White Supremacy to the Beloved Community: King in Conversation with Schleiermacher.”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (November 20: San Antonio, TX)

“Hate What is Evil: The Relationship Between Hatred and Love in Dr. King’s
Theology.”
Midwest American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (April 23: online)

2020
“Negating Capitalism: The Beloved Community as Negative Political Theology and Positive Social Imaginary.”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (December 9: online)

“How Then Should We Experience?”
Wesleyan Theological Society Annual Meeting (March 7: Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO)

2019
“Remaining Angry: The Intimate Connection between Anger and Love in King's Social Theology”
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(November 23: San Diego, CA)

“Be Still and Know that I am God: The Apocalyptic Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Midwest American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(March 2: Muncie, IN)

2018
“Withered Souls: The Degrading Effects of White Supremacy on White America” Wesleyan Philosophical Society Annual Meeting 
(March 8: Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, TN)