Jamye Wooten speaks with Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith Sr., pastor emeritus of Allen Temple Baptist Church of Oakland, California, at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
Dr. R. Drew Smith, co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, speaks to KineticsLive.com about Black Churches in Global Public Spaces
By Romal Tune, As I work with churches and communities groups developing strategies to reach “at-risk” youth two things are very clear. First, what was once considered a problem amongst inner city youth of color has now become a problem affecting suburban middle class families. Secondly, the term “at-risk” no longer applies only to low-income,...
“The time is ripe for our church people and theologians to forge new, mutually beneficial relationships with brothers and sisters abroad,” writes Wilmore thirty years after “Black Theology” began coursing its way through black religious thought and practice, and five years after the 1994 democratic transition in South Africa signaled the end of white minority rule on the African continent.
REGISTER WORKSHOPS Activating Ubuntu: Ecumenical Interfaith and Intercultural Mobilization ~ Bishop Tutu defines a person embracing Ubuntu as one who knows that they themselves belong to “a greater whole and [are] diminished when others are humiliated, or [are] diminished when others are tortured or oppressed. This workshop will address strategies to design and sustain transformative and holistic...