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Mar 19, 2019

Dr. Lisa Thompson, assistant professor of homiletics at Union Theological Seminary, demonstrates the role of proclamation in calling individual and communal fragmentation into wholeness, recalling proclamations from the book of Ezekiel and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, while also reflecting on the present proclamations of...


Mar 19, 2019

Dr. Vincent Lloyd, associate professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, addresses the role of negative theology in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s thinking, recommending that Black public theology reengage the practice of naming what is not good in order to move people toward God and...


Mar 5, 2019

Dr. Candace Shields, bishop and pastor at Twice Called Christian Center, discusses the divide between Black theology and the Black church, arguing that a greater collaboration between the two would foster transformation within African American communities.

The Black Public Theology Symposium was held at Fuller...


Mar 5, 2019

Dr. Eric Williams, curator of religion at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, examines the relationship between James Baldwin’s early experience in the Black church and his literary career, focusing on the ways Baldwin implements and secularizes the tradition of African American preaching.

The...