{"id":1016,"date":"2013-12-12T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/our-contributor-c-j-rhodes.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:56:00","slug":"our-contributor-c-j-rhodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/12\/our-contributor-c-j-rhodes.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Contributor: C J Rhodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Reverend C. Edward Rhodes II currently is the Rector of Oakland Memorial Chapel and Director of Student Religious Life<\/a> at Alcorn State University<\/a>. Additionally, Rev. Rhodes\u00a0<\/span>served as pastor of the historic\u00a0<\/span>Mt. Helm Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0in Jackson, Mississippi. He also\u00a0<\/span>serves in the Young Ministers Division and on the Education Committee of the\u00a0General Missionary Baptist State Convention. He is also a popular instructor in the State Congress of Christian Education and serves as the Convention\u2019s Liaison for Ecumenical and Civic Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Rhodes is the blessed husband of his beloved Allison Corlese Thomas-Rhodes, the director of Human Resources at the law offices of Brunini, Grantham, Grower and Hewes, LLC. Together they are committed to glorifying God.<\/p>\n


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C J Rhodes also blogs at C J Rhodes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>Follow him on Twitter @RevRhodes<\/a><\/span>\n

C.J.\u2019s Contributions:<\/span><\/b>

<\/span><\/b>1.Keeping Hope Alive: My Interview with Joel Osteen<\/a><\/span>
2.\u201cFull of Sound and Fury\u201d: Why the Sanctified Church Needs Reform<\/a><\/span>
3.\u00a0Using Our Sanitized Imagination: Why We Don\u2019t Really Like MLK<\/a><\/span>
4.\u00a0The Half Has Not Been Told: Why I\u2019m Not Giving Up on Generation Y<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

5.\u00a0Frustrated Fellowship: Millennials and the Future(s) of Black Baptist Churches<\/a><\/div>\n
6.\u00a0Beyond False Choices: The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship and Black Baptist Identities<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reverend C. Edward Rhodes II currently is the Rector of Oakland Memorial Chapel and Director of Student Religious Life at Alcorn State University. Additionally, Rev. Rhodes\u00a0served as pastor of the historic\u00a0Mt. Helm Baptist Church\u00a0in Jackson, Mississippi. He also\u00a0serves in the Young Ministers Division and on the Education Committee of the\u00a0General Missionary Baptist State Convention. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOur Contributor: C J Rhodes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reverend C. 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