Apr 23, 2019
Dr. Vincent Bacote, associate professor of ethics at Wheaton College, describes the opportunity for a Black public theology to engage with the world between Sundays, contributing to conversations involving topics such as white supremacy, politics, education, public health, and healthy forms of social...
Apr 23, 2019
Dr. Leslie Callahan, senior pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia, observes and denounces the tendency of Christians to organize around charismatic “strong men,” which predisposes those individuals to prefer authoritarian styles of leadership. Dr. Callahan weaves together the strands of racism...
Apr 9, 2019
Reverend Michael McBride, lead pastor of The Way Christian Center and national director of Urban Strategies and LIVE FREE, discusses the resources of the Black church for developing a Black theopraxis in order to resist the structures of white supremacy, human hierarchy, and whiteness.
The Black Public Theology...
Apr 9, 2019
Dr. Valerie Cooper, associate professor of religion and society and Black church studies at Duke Divinity School, unveils the forces that maintain segregation in the American evangelical church, arguing that many initiatives that declare themselves to be defenses of “theological orthodoxy,” biblicism, or...