Kim R. Harris is the Associate Professor of African American Religious Thought and Practice in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In addition to teaching courses on Black liberation and Womanist theologies, Harris leads music in a variety of liturgical and academic settings. She is a liturgist, composer and recording artist, presenting lectures on the music of the Black Catholic experience, the historic Negro Spirituals, and the freedom song of modern Civil Rights Movement. Harris is a member of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and the North American Academy of Liturgy. She is the composer of the Welcome Table: A Mass of Spirituals, one of the complete Mass settings included in the Lead Me Guide Me Black Catholic hymnal second edition and the Gather IV hymnal (both GIA Publications Inc.). Her 2023 publication, with M. Roger Holland II and Kate Williams of GIA Publications is a Black Catholic Sourcebook entitled The Fire This Time. Dr. Harris’ latest publication, with LMU colleague Dr. Daniel Smith Christopher involved bringing forward a historic book by Dr. Christa Klingbeil Dixon entitled Historic Negro Spirituals as Biblical Interpretation.
hen we imagine what our beautiful city could become, will become… When we continue to pray for the coming of the Holy Spirit. How do we envision that beautiful city?VIEW
Do we see, as we look at our table, not only who is there, but who is not there? Who is not invited? Who is invited but cannot gain access?VIEW
When I think of Mary, Mother of God, bearing a child in a land occupied by Roman soldiers, I think of “the talk.” You know, “the talk” that modern day Black and brown mothers have to give to their children, before they leave the house each day, right here in the United States.VIEW