With James Cone’s Death Comes the Death of Black Theology
With James Cone’s death, comes the death of Black theology. This statement is hyperbolic in…
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Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture
A Q&A with the Rev. Yolanda Pierce, director of DC’s new Center for the Study of African American Religion.
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Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century
Black Christian public intellectuals are a vanishing group.
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I’m Dreaming of a White Christ(mas)
Megyn Kelly’s infamous comments on the color of Santa and Christ didn’t just spring fully formed from Fox News host’s mind.
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What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?
American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
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Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace
In his latest attack on the Social Justice, Glenn Beck slams the work of James H. Cone and Black Liberation Theology. On the surface, what Beck says may be appealing; Cone does make people uncomfortable. With a black man in the White House and talk of a “post-racial” America, who…
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Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology
Last Tuesday, Glenn Beck dedicated an entire episode to attacking liberation theology and one of its greatest proponents, James Cone. RD speaks to the president of Union Theological Seminary to talk about liberation theology, hate, and the longterm prospects for progressive Christianity.
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