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When It Is Time to Hang 'Em Up………
BUT I'LL BE BACK! I know that in sports, the greatest athletes of all time do not know when it is time to call it quits. But today, I made the decision to hang them up temporarily. But not a specific...
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Is Jim West Blaming the victim again?
It is has been noted that there are only 20 women on the Biblioglosphere as compared to 270 men recently. April DeConick blames it on an invisibility of women religious scholars that seems to be...
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The Racial Draft 2009: Celucien Joseph's Theology and Ethnic Diversity Meme
One of my favorite episodes of Chappelle’s Show is the one where they have the Racial Draft and the Black people team drafts Tiger Woods with the first pick. Celucien did not tag anyone but he did...
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Upcoming Paper Presentation: 2010 Wesleyan Theological Society Meeting in Azusa
WTS 45th Annual Meeting at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California March 4-6, 2010 “The Future of Scripture” Keynote speaker: Richard Hays, author of The Faith of Jesus Christ and The Moral...
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Decolonizing the Justification Debate #1: James Cone and Divine Righteousness...
*update, this is a repost, since I want to restart this series* During the summer, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight of JESUS CREED has been working on a series dealing with, N T Wright,...
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Lemuel Haynes: Black Calvinist, Political Revolutionary
The enslaved African Americans who first gathered for illegal worship sessions on the eighteenth and nineteenth century plantations also had burning bush experiences. In the African American Christian...
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Third Wave Womanism Conference
I wish I could go next week. “Challenging boundaries and expanding discourse, this “third wave” conference offers an opportunity to diversely engage the rugged terrains of our contemporary condition...
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Second Book Review for JRER
Celucien Joseph on Race: A Theological Account Celucien Joseph of Christ My Righteousness did a book review for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion on J. Kameron Carter’s Race: A Theological...
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The Black Church: An Obituary?
Last week, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. announce that the Black Church Is dead. Whenever someone fallaciously announces the “death” of an institution, it usually means the end of an institution as we...
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Now Playing
I have just launched a blog dedicated to my ThM thesis, the The Beyond Free Project. Welcome to the Beyond Free Project that looks at the religious histories of early Christians as well as persons of...
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John Milbank on Multiculturalism
Image by World Economic Forum via Flickr A week or so ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech on the hazards of a “separate but equal” state sponsored multiculturalism. Radically...
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D.C. Church Chooses Solar Energy
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I saw this story the other day. I believe that Creation Care starts with the church (and not the government). Enjoy. Congregation is first black church in D.C. to be...
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My Fourth Contribution to the African American Lectionary
1st Contribution-February 2009 2nd Contribution–Palm Sunday 2009 3rd Contribution-Easter 2009 I was called upon to contribute to the African American Lectionary for the 4th time. I must say, I put my...
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Dave Ramsey & Bishop Eddie Long: Proof churches should not host investment...
Christians need to stop listening to dilettantes like Dave Ramsey. Seriously, I am glad he can help so many people, but with his history of controversial statements (which I won’t get into), his view...
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South Carolina Black Church Now Owns KKK Museum
In what happens to be one of the epically hilarious stories I’ve read this year, in South Carolina (of all places–Miracles can happen) one Black church can claim a victory over the Ku Klux Klan. A...
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The Africana Bible: Judges and Dethroning Bishop Long
Confronting the Royal Ideology of Pastoral Authority, Sharing the Gospel Message According to Judges On Wednesday, Professor Anthea Butler responded to Bishop Eddie Long’s enthronement. Please read her...
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Introducing The Africana Bible: Not A Commentary, but A Folklore
The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures From Africa and the African Diaspora When I first heard of The Africana Bible, my first reaction was, oh, here we go again. What haven’t black scholars...
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The Witness of Christian Black Anti-Racists And The Gospel
A fellow biblioblogger emailed me this blog post: Witnessing To Black Theological Liberals. At first, I didn’t want to respond, because I have been over these arguments time and again here, but I think...
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President Obama Faces Criticism From Black Churches For His Murderous Drone...
Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is absolutely Good News to read about! “The National...
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Marginalized within the Marginalized – Thoughts on contemporary black culture...
A Guest Post “Harry Samuels is a student at UNC Asheville majoring in Environmental Management & Policy. He’s also very much obsessed with this Jesus guy – his politics, religious sensibilities,...
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