{"id":2322,"date":"2012-02-27T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/our-contributor-weldon-mcwilliams-iv.html"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:58:00","slug":"our-contributor-weldon-mcwilliams-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/our-contributor-weldon-mcwilliams-iv.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Contributor: Weldon McWilliams IV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/a>Dr. Weldon McWilliams is an ordained minister and currently serves as a professor at Cheney University. In addition to this he is also the Interim Director of the Calling Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role-Modeling) program. This program is designed to increase the production of African-American male role models in the areas of mentorship, leadership, and becoming teachers within the public school system. Dr. McWilliams has served on several panels and served as speaker to many events nationwide. His research interests are Liberation Theology and the African American religious experience, Black Manhood, and Political and Social Movements.<\/span>

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Articles from Weldon:<\/span>
1.\u00a0Christianity and the Conflict in the Middle East<\/a><\/span>
2.\u00a0I Heard you Mr. President, and \u201cHear\u201d is What I Have to Say<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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