By Obery Hendricks, PhD, “They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. … God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Paul’s Letter to American Christians,”...
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Fellowship of Reconciliation, joins Thom Hartmann. The protests in Ferguson - Missouri over the summer introduced a generation of young people to the power of activism. So where do we go from here to keep on building a modern day movement for civil rights?
Livestream of conversation between Rev. Osagyefo Sekou Cornel West, Khadijah Abdul-Mateen Foster J. Pinkney and other Union Theological Seminary students. Tonight, 5:30pm James Chapel.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference partners with SpiritHouse Project, Christ the King United Church of Christ and Eden Theological Seminary to host Teach-In, Eat-In, and Preach-In for Social Justice in Ferguson, MO.
By R. Drew Smith, Ph.D., There is a scripture verse that has become a tag line for the thriving praise and prosperity emphasis within American Christianity: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”...
By Rev. Andre Johnson, Ph.D., I recently attended our Convocation service at Memphis Theological Seminary where we celebrated our 50th year anniversary in Memphis, Tennessee as a seminary. Our president, Rev. Dr. Jay Earheart-Browndelivered an inspiring sermon titled, “Ministry in the Real World.” He reminded us about the decision of the seminary to move from McKenzie, Tennessee to...
