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Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago speaks at the Christian Theological Seminary.
Presented by Fresno State's Africana Studies Program and the Black Popular Culture Lecture Series and Online Research
It would be good if this spate of time where the anger of white people is being lifted up could serve as the bridge for new communication and understanding between the races. But it won’t - because those who could begin the dialogues will not do that. They are holding onto the Myth of White Superiority.
Dr. J. Kameron Carter – The Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures: Lecture IV, Princeton Theological Seminary
Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in-studio by Alisha Lola Jones (@Move_And_Shake), Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Jones and Neal discuss her research on Gospel Music and the performances of Black Masculinity, the career of Anthony Clark Williams II (B.Slade/Tonex), and her Top-5 of Gospel #turnups.
New media and new movements—many of which are led by a new generation of women on the front lines—bolster Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes’ assertion that 'if it wasn’t for the women, you wouldn’t have a church!'"
As I close my Lenten devotional series, my prayer is for all those individual and collective hopes and dreams that have died an early death or have been killed with harsh words, lack of support, or lack of resources. Let those dreams and desires arise anew in you. Risen, indeed!
Many of us spend quite a bit of our time in this liminal space that Holy Saturday represents: struggling with doubt, struggling with hell on earth, and struggling with work insistent and yet unfinished.
And while we can acknowledge that this particular Friday is “good,” in remembrance of the life of Jesus, this day also marks a horrific, unjust, and violent death of an innocent man. On this day, the cross and the lynching tree both speak.
There’s a pretty stark divide among the “Hated it” and “Loved it” crowd. It’s concerning. It tells me that whatever we learned in seminary is not exactly finding its way to the spaces that matter. This experience taught me that there has to be something other than thinkpiece-smack-and-tag culture.
