MEET DR. TAMICE SPENCER-HELMS
Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms is the Creative Director of Black Modern Mystic—bringing scholarship, spiritual practice, and cultural critique into one grounded, liberating vision.
Their work weaves Black studies, religious ethics, decolonial theology, and Black expressive culture into frameworks that help people make meaning, deepen practice, and move toward justice.
At Black Modern Mystic, Spencer-Helms curates the project’s “intellectual spine”—translating complex ideas into clear pathways for reflection, ritual, and transformation.
DR. T’s WRITING & PUBLIC THEOLOGY
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SUBSTACK
Here, I speak directly to spiritual fugitives—those on the run from small gods, restrictive theologies, and limiting narratives. This writing is intimate, clear, and rooted in my desire to make complex ideas not only understandable but enjoyable.
Substack is where I offer companionship, language, and resonance for anyone navigating a nonlinear spiritual journey.
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ACADEMIC
My academic work challenges dominant theological frameworks while tethering spirituality to Black cultural life, relational knowledge, and ethical responsibility. I write for journals, conferences, and scholars interested in new pathways for spiritual formation outside colonial, anti-Black structures.
My dissertation was a theological construction and tested two new models of paraontological ministry formation and praxis.
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PUBLICATION
In addition to my editorial and public scholarship, I write for published books within the fields of post- and progressive-Christian theology and memoir. My publications are typically geared toward helping people heal from harmful religious frameworks while reclaiming a sacred, embodied spirituality.
I am the author of Faith Unleavened, a spiritual memoir that explores my process of liberation from antiblack theology, and my second book, Light These Roots on Fire, explores my experience of white supremacy in the black church.