Cornel West
Cornel West for prophet! (Not president.)
By Andre Henry — June 7, 2023
(RNS) — The Bible tells us that prophets don’t make good kings.
Cornel West, Robert George mark Jan. 6 anniversary with call for courageous leaders
By Adelle M. Banks — January 9, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘This country desperately needs courageous spiritual leadership,’ said the Rev. Eugene Rivers at the anniversary event, to ‘speak to the existential crisis that confronts us.’
Albert Raboteau, expert on African American religious history, dead at 78
By Adelle M. Banks — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — The scholar ‘was the Godfather of Afro-American Religious Studies & the North Star of deep Christian political sensibilities!’ said colleague Cornel West.
‘You can’t think yourself out of racism’: Black religion scholars call for conversion
By Renée Roden — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Black religion scholars say their work is routinely undervalued and their advancement blocked by a bias that sees the study of Black religious experience as secondary to white theology.
Christian ethicist Donald W. Shriver Jr., who called America to repent of racism, dies
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2021
(RNS) — The former president of Union Theological Seminary in New York, Shriver believed public repentance was the only hope for 'a future less evil than our pasts.'
In resignation letter, Cornel West says Harvard constitutes ‘intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy’
By Alejandra Molina — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Cornel West released the text of a June 30 letter outlining his reasons for leaving Harvard.
Cornel West returns to Union Theological Seminary after Harvard tenure dispute
By Alejandra Molina — March 8, 2021
(RNS) — The move comes after West had threatened to leave Harvard University, which he said denied his request to be considered for tenure.
Talking MLK, Robert George and Cornel West offer antidote to partisanship
By Adelle M. Banks — May 30, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — West said he’s had to answer critics who can’t understand how he travels around the country with George: 'I say, "Have you met him? Have you sat down and talked with him?"'
Am I not a theologian too?
By F. Romall Smalls — March 15, 2018
(RNS) — Why don’t more of us study and think of theological giants like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his chief of staff, the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, as theologians?
How the social gospel movement explains the roots of today’s religious left
By Christopher H. Evans — July 18, 2017
The social gospel movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has had a particularly significant impact on the development of the religious left.
When you’re the one in the captain’s chair
By David P. Gushee — December 8, 2016
It is easy to be the fire-breathing prophet when you are not the leader.
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