James Cone
A new biblical epic, ‘The Book of Clarence,’ captures the political side of the messiah
By Andre Henry — January 11, 2024
(RNS) — An irreverent biblical comedy counters decades of whitewashed and stiff-necked biblical narratives.
In ‘This Here Flesh,’ Cole Arthur Riley finds the sacred in humanity
By Kathryn Post — February 18, 2022
(RNS) — 'I think people will be surprised just how much of myself this book contains,' said the Black Liturgies author.
Warnock, Sewell discuss ‘sacred’ voting rights — and whether God is Black
By Jack Jenkins — November 18, 2021
(RNS) — Sen. Raphael Warnock described voting as ‘a kind of prayer for the world we desire, for ourselves and our children.’
Chicago preacher Otis Moss III uses film to honor Ahmaud Arbery, address racism
By Adelle M. Banks — May 18, 2020
(RNS) — ‘I would challenge all people of faith to become educated about the weaponizing of black skin in American culture,’ said the Rev. Otis Moss III.
Being a resurrection people in a time of death
By Valerie Cooper — April 12, 2020
(RNS) — Even if this Easter comes and goes with me standing alone in my home, in my heart, I will have been standing with my people: the faithful, across all time and generations, our arms and hearts and spirits linked in love.
White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth
By Andre Henry — January 9, 2020
(RNS) — A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism, in the shape of the late James Cone, a founder of black liberation theology.
Why white nationalism tempts white Christians
By Jemar Tisby — May 1, 2019
(RNS) — Too often Christian individuals and institutions act as if general statements condemning bigotry and saccharine assertions of racial and ethnic equality are sufficient to combat white nationalism. They are not.
James Cone, the cross, and the lynching memorial
By Jemar Tisby — April 30, 2018
(RNS) — James Cone refused to assign any authenticity to a religion that claimed to be Christian but did not address the liberation of black people from white supremacy.
James Cone, ‘founder of black liberation theology,’ dies at 79
By Adelle M. Banks — April 28, 2018
(RNS) — His theology contrasted sharply with traditional views by articulating God’s identification with U.S. blacks.
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?
America unveiled, or, when you don’t feel at home in your own country
By David P. Gushee — March 1, 2016
What to do when you feel like a stranger to many millions of your neighbors, whom you find incomprehensible.
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