Dr. Shively Smith

Dr. Shively T. J. Smith is a sought-after scholar, teacher, speaker, and preacher of the New Testament and Howard Washington Thurman. She serves as Assistant Professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology (Boston, MA). She completed her Ph.D. in New Testament Studies at Emory University, having also studied at Fisk University, Oxford University, and Columbia Theological Seminary. She has published her book, Strangers to Family: Diaspora and First Peter’s Invention of God’s Household and her book on 2 Peter and Nineteenth Century African American Women is forthcoming. Dr. Smith is also an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church where she proudly serves as member and resident scholar at the historic Metropolitan AME Church (Washington, DC).