The Rev. Rashad D. Grove is the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wayne, PA. He is the 6th Generation of Baptist ministers committed to the liberating Gospel of Jesus Christ. On January 27st of 2013, the First Baptist Church of Wayne, PA voted unanimously to select Rev. Rashad D. Grove as its new pastor and at the 31 years of age, one of the youngest pastors in the history of the historic church. After being licensed to Gospel... 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 1 of the presentation. Introduction In August of 1893, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church bishop, Henry McNeal Turner, issued a call to convene a black national convention. This... Read more
Rhodes College Professor Dee Garceau interviewed R3 managing editor Andre E. Johnson for her documentary film, “Remember Fort Pillow.” According to Rhodes College, the film “recently earned an Award of Merit in the Educational category of the Best Shorts Competition. This honor recognizes the significance and professional quality of her production. Also according to Rhodes College: The Best Shorts Competition is unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as unknown, independent filmmakers, it is an international awards competition. A... Read more
If you would like to become a contributor, click here Brian Foulks is a pastor, church planter, an urban missionary, and a motivational speaker. Known for being an advocate for invading the culture with the truth of the scripture. He is a cultural hybrid who connects the seminary with the community and speaks for the marginalized who are trying to get out of the trappings of poverty. His mission is based on a need to redirect the efforts of the... Read more
This semester I taught a class on Black Theology. I centered our analysis of Black theology within the Ferguson and Black Lives Matter movement. Students read works in Black Theology and the goal was to draw from the black theology an understanding of what happening in Ferguson and beyond. We studied methodology and practice and examined how ‘black theology” would look like in places such as Ferguson where racism and systemic issues and problems are so embedded in the criminal... Read more
From the ARTS ONLINE blog Contributors to the “Race Matters” blog sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion in the Fall of 2014 were invited to offer a tactic they have used in their classrooms—both undergraduate and graduate—for engaging difference in meaningful ways. Below is my suggestion for doing so. Engaging the City: Memorials and the Making of Theology The Context: an Urban Theology class at Eden Theological Seminary, comprised of fourteen students (eight... Read more
I had the opportunity to be a part of the Colored Conventions symposium held April 24-25, 2015 at the University of Delaware. The symposium posed questions about the ways in which understandings of nineteenth-century campaigns for racial justice shifted when the decades-long colored convention movement stands alongside abolition as one of the principal ways in which we conceive of early racial and justice movements. You can read some of the tweets from the symposium below. [View the story “Colored Conventions in... Read more
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The departments of Africana Studies and Theatre at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee will sponsor the Ferguson Fiasco: Speaking Ferguson and Beyond Roundtable Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00pm in the Frazier-Jelke building (Room A) on campus. The open forum will include the top student speeches from the Public Speaking classes with discussion afterwards. In addition, R3 managing editor, Andre E. Johnson will share some of his experiences in teaching Ferguson in a classroom setting. The class introduced students to the... Read more
R3 managing editor, Dr. Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Religion and African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary will offer a one week intensive immersion class for the Summer term titled, Church in the City: “Show Me What Theology Looks Like”: The Intersection of Faith and Activism. Dr. Johnson will co-teach the class with R3 Contributor Rev. Renita Lampkin, on the campus of Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, June 15-19, 2015. Classes in urban theology explore and focus on the current... Read more
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