Join us for Chapel Service during our 2024 MLKJ Celebration! Dr. Stanley Talbert is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University in Malibu,

California. Talbert completed his Ph.D. at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New

York, with disciplinary emphases on Theology and African American Studies. His dissertation,

entitled, “Playing in a Strange Land: A Revolutionary Theology of Play” examines the

emergence of modern racism as a re-creation of human bodies and relations constructed through the entanglement of play, sport, and theology.