Hi! My name is Elaine Elizabeth Belz, and I’m a Detroiter, theologian, poet, and churchgeek (an alias I’ve used online since the early 2000s). As you can see above, I often have bad hair.

I teach theology at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary here in Detroit. I studied at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA (PhD in theological aesthetics and MA in systematic & philosophical theology) and the University of Michigan (BA, double concentration in philosophy, and communication).

If you’d like to read some of my academic work, please see the links below:

Book Review: Grief Set Free, Alvin Johnson

Article on Virgin of Vladimir icon

(Other work is not available online.)

You can also listen to my choir (pre-COVID; since we’ve been live-streaming services we haven’t returned to uploading recordings to Sound Cloud).

I would love if you would say hello!

You can find me on X a.k.a. Twitter (@ElaineBelz), Tumblr (@churchgeek), Threads (@eebelz), and LinkedIn. I’m also on Instagram, but I don’t really post there.

^{(sometimes, though, my hair’s OK)}