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Joshua L. Lazard

Joshua L. Lazard, the inaugural C. Eric Lincoln Minister at Duke Chapel, is a graduate of the Interdenominational Theological Center. He is also a musician, and an armchair cultural critic in the area of race, religion and politics with the hope of advancing both the community and humanity at large. He goes by the online moniker of The Uppity Negro.

(A)theologies, ArchiveAugust 30, 2017

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

On Saturday, August 26, Lakewood Church issued a statement on Facebook that they were going…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesAugust 3, 2017

Will Millennials Forge a Future for the Progressive Black Church?

By Joshua L. Lazard

An electric sermon lights up the night at a century-old conference for Black clergy.

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Remapping American ChristianitiesMay 17, 2017

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

Comedian John Crist’s YouTube sketches lampooning Christian subculture have gained notoriety largely due to the repetitive one liners that…

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Archive, Culture, Remapping American ChristianitiesApril 14, 2017

“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?

By Joshua L. Lazard

If the numerous think-pieces and essays on “Coloring Book” were any indication, one could surmise that Chance’s popularity was in part because of his public embrace of his faith, not despite it.

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesMarch 15, 2017

I’m Not Going to Pray For Trump

By Joshua L. Lazard

To forgive representative powers and principalities of their spiritual wickedness is to be morally complicit in the potentially active oppression of one’s self—and certainly in the oppression of one’s neighbor.

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesSeptember 30, 2016

To Be Christian, Intellectual and Black: A Response to Vincent Lloyd

By Joshua L. Lazard

Continuing the conversation on the role and reception of black Christian intellectuals in this country.

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Reconstruction 3.0, Remapping American ChristianitiesJanuary 16, 2016

Rev. William Barber: Speaking “Truth that Empowers”

By Joshua L. Lazard

I moved to the Triangle area of North Carolina in 2014, and I had only…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American Christianities, StoriesJuly 6, 2015

A Theology of Anger: Forgiveness For White Supremacy Derails Action and Alienates Young Black Activists

By Joshua L. Lazard

Just a day after the massacre in the historic Emanuel AME Church of Charleston, the son of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Sexuality/GenderDecember 12, 2013

“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology

By Joshua L. Lazard

Last week there was a flurry of controversy over the public disinviting of gospel star Donnie Mclurkin to a DC celebration of in advance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The mayor’s…

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