by Paula Penn-Nabrit CMadison loved Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style and gifted copies to our sons as homeschooling “treats”. Me, not so much…should that last period have been placed inside or outside of the quotation marks and does anyone really care?! But lately I’ve been musing about indefinite and definite articles, specifically a death versus the death. It’s been two years since CMadison died. I was a young girl of 17 when I met him and a 57 year old woman when he died.... Read more
Recently, R3 had an opportunity to interview Donathan Brown, co-author (with Michael L. Clemons) of the new book Voting Rights Under Fire: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color (Praeger, 2015). R3: What lead you and your to write this book? DB: We felt that the continual onslaught of states passing voter identification laws, the continual court challenges, along with the overall controversy these measures created was reason enough to dig deeper. Claims over the widespread existence and influence of in-person... Read more
by Charles McKinney I started grad school in the fall of 1990. I finished my master’s in 1994, and left screaming and cussing, swearing never to return to my program in history at Duke. I felt like grad school wasn’t worth the effort. I felt like I should be doing something more “substantive”, something more explicitly connected to the improvement of Black Life. So, I left, and spent several years working in the non-profit sector. Five hard, glorious years, doing... Read more
Crystal St. Marie Lewis writes about the intersections of religion, theology, secularization and the world in which we live . An advocate for inter-religious dialogue, Crystal earned her Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree (focus: World Religions) at Wesley Theological Seminary and a graduate certificate in Muslim/Christian Dialogue via the Washington Theological Consortium. Crystal’s writing can be found in the Religion Section of The Huffington Post and on her own website, Window On Religion. She lives in Washington, DC, where she pastors a... Read more
In my previous post, I ended wanting to explore the connection between the black church (assuming the “non-white” context of the early Christian church) and the Black Lives Matter movement, discussing the theological and practical aspects of the movement as a possible extension of the black, or womanist, church in the 21st century. Moreover, drawing from the work of Albert Cleage, in what James Evans called an ecclesiology of praxis rather than one of the proclaimed Word” (156), I would like to... Read more
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the death of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834-May 8, 2015). *Below is an edited version of a paper that I presented at the Colored Convention Symposium on April 25, 2015 in Newark, Delaware at the Delaware Historical Society Reading Room. This is part 2 of the presentation. Read part 1 here. Turner’s Propaganda Campaign After his initial call to the 1893 Convention, the response was overwhelming. Turner wrote in his newspaper that over “three-hundred... Read more
Daniel White Hodge, PhD, is an expert in religion and popular culture, race, & Hip Hop studies. His first book, Heaven Has A Ghetto: The Missiological Gospel & Theology of Tupac Amaru Shakur wrestles with the profane and sacred socio-theological messages within Tupac’s life, his second book, The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rimbs, Timbs, & A Cultural Theologyengages a new arena of theological studies by examining what Hip Hoppers espouse to be God and the quest for spirituality within the Hip Hop community.... Read more
“Here is the church, here is the steeple, open the doors and see all the people.” – Old English nursery rhyme “If there is a God who is worthy of my adoration, He has a tattoo on His face.” – Rev. Osagyefo Sekou I left the church when I was 19 years old. Born and raised in the Episcopal tradition, I was quite the involved churchgoer from an early age. I was baptized as an infant, confirmed as an adolescent,... Read more
Minister Kimberly Peeler-Ringer is a scholar-student of the Bible with graduate degrees in biblical and religious studies from the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia and Vanderbilt University. She is the Associate Editor for Sunday School Curriculum at RH Boyd Publishing Corporation and is also a Christian Education consultant, a sought after speaker, and a former television news producer. Her research interests are the Gospel of John, and black feminist interpretation of Scripture. She is married... Read more
Katherine Whitfield moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 2000 to attend Rhodes College. She graduated in 2004 with a degree in English and a minor in Religious Studies. Immediately after college, Katherine worked for four years coordinating PR and marketing efforts for an independent bookstore. Since 2008, she has served on the marketing and communications team at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, facilitating on-campus communications, collaborating on culture-shaping initiatives and partnering with Le Bonheur families to ensure the best possible care experience.... Read more
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