Eddie Glaude, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of African American Studies, will engage in conversation with Ph.D. candidate Nyle Fort.
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The pre-eminent scholar of African American religious history in the United States.
The Annual Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice was delivered by Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas and examined the social/political and theological implications of whiteness as an impediment to living God’s justice.
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Faith and Faustian Bargains: Compromise, Complicity, and Courage in Leadership
Race and religion are among the best predictors of how Americans choose a president. Race and religion are also bases for political compromises that call into question our moral credibility on issues ranging from voting rights to police brutality.
Dr. Melanie Harris speaks at the 2014 Religions for the Earth conference at Union Theological Seminary.
Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of Obery Hendricks’ “The Politics of Jesus” November 19, 2016 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas Panelists: Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL Nyasha Junior, Temple University Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary Keri Day, Brite Divinity School Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown […]
Dr. Marla Frederick, Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion at Harvard University discusses the history of religion and media.
The session featured a discussion with Dr. Johnny Bernard Hill on the release of Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation, in dialogue with leading theologians and activists on the nature of prophetic Christian witness in today’s context. From “Stand Your Ground Laws” to the issue of “mass incarceration,” what does it mean to stand for truth in […]
Rahiel Tesfamariam, Founder and Publisher of UrbanCusp.com, talks to us about faith, social media and social justice.
By Jamye Wooten “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend…And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it is easy, but when it is hard.”- Remarks by President Barack Obama at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN CHILDREN HOLD PORTRAITS OF […]
