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Ron Karenga, you said that ‘The fact that I am Black is my ultimate reality.’ But then on page 34 of the same book, you wrote that ‘Christianity begins and ends with the man Jesus—his life, death and resurrection.’ Which do you really mean? Blackness or Jesus Christ? You cannot have it both ways.” This is an important matter, and perhaps the place

waters. Religious commitment, or even God, hasn’t simply been subtracted from our culture, like taking one picket out of the backyard fence; with a little action and persistence, we think, the picket can be replaced in the whole. Rather, the whole of our social imaginary has shifted. Charles Taylor says it this way: “Modernity is defined not just b

my basic theological perspective—that the God of biblical faith and black religion is partial toward the weak.

We begin with the simple historical fact that Jesus was a Jew. The miracle of the Jewish people is almost as breathtaking as the miracle of Jesus. Is there something unique, some special increment of vitality in the womb of the people out of whose loins he came, that made of him a logical flowering of a long development of racial experience, ethica

It is necessary to examine the religion of Jesus against the background of his own age and people, and to inquire into the content of his teaching with reference to…

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Yet what’s fascinating is that Henry upped the ante. He called for a change in the conception of the pastor. Henry claimed that the pastor is to witness to this divine

The urgent work calling us in theological education is to touch the divine reality of longing, to enter into its power and newness as the logic inside the work of gathering

En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K