We’d love to have you at the table.
Thursday, November 19, 2026
6—8 p.m.
Know Your Neighbor's Shared Table program gathers people from across San Antonio for dinner and conversation about our city.
Explore Divine Lament with Dr. Ellen Davis. Dr. Davis, a professor of Bible and practical theology at Duke Divinity School, will explore passages of the Old Testament to show us how we can use lament to process injustice and hardship.
Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. The author of twelve books and many articles, her research interests focus on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their response to urgent public issues, particularly the ecological crisis and interfaith relations.
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2009), integrates biblical studies with a critique of industrial agriculture and food production. Biblical Prophecy: Perspectives for Christian Theology, Discipleship and Ministry (Westminster John Knox, 2014), explores the prophetic role and word across both Testaments of the Christian Bible. Her most recent books are Preaching the Luminous Word(Eerdmans, 2016), a collection of her sermons and essays, and Opening Israel’s Scriptures (Oxford, 2019), a comprehensive theological reading of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Light within Light: Psalms and the Arts of Insight, co-written with Makoto Fujimura and Shai Held, is forthcoming from Baylor University Press in 2026.
A lay Episcopalian, she has long been active as a theological consultant within the Anglican Communion. Her current work explores the arts as modes of scriptural interpretation.
