Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.

A lifelong social activist, Obery Hendricks is one of the foremost commentators on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today.

Obery Hendricks on the Chicago Theological Seminary

Obery Hendricks on the Chicago Theological Seminary | 2022 C. Shelby Rooks Lecture

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Obery Hendricks presents a lecture entitled “The Political Economy of the Kingdom of God,” challenging popular conceptions of Christianity as a predominantly conservative religion. Dr. Hendricks harkens back to the radical roots of the message of Jesus of Nazareth and delves deeply into how politics have skewed that message. Learn more about this here: 2022 […]

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Obery Hendricks on the Socialism 2022

Obery Hendricks on Christians and the Socialist Struggle: Promises and Perils | Socialism 2022

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There is a rise of religious organizations joining the socialist struggle. The panel explored what role religion should play in socialist politics; the rightwing’s hegemony in US Christianity and what socialists can learn from it; and the difference between “reactionary socialism” and a truly emancipatory Christian socialist politics. Learn more about this here: Socialism 2022

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Obery Hendricks - Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org

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This is a post sure to turn off education/edtech readers. Sorry. Today, we must realize that schools are under attack by Christian Nationalists that are doing their best to control and destroy democracy in the United States of America. They have launched their attack and democracy can’t count on a few well-placed Democrats in the

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Obery Hendricks on Recommended Reading

Obery Hendricks on Recommended Reading

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Obery Hendricks is Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary and Adjunct Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Columbia University. His new book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith, charges conservative evangelicals with undermining the Christian tradition. Learn more about this here: Anti-Christians –

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Obery Hendricks on the Los Angeles Review of Books

Obery Hendricks on the Los Angeles Review of Books

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Obery Hendricks is angry at white evangelicals — not all of them, perhaps, but certainly the strong majority of those now associated with right-wing politics in the United States. It’s not just that these religious-political actors have disagreements with their more liberal brothers and sisters; it’s that they have abdicated the Christian tradition altogether, discarding

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Obery Hendricks on Spiritual Directors Talking About Stuff

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In this episode, Christopher and Maggie talk to Dr. Obery M. Hendricks about his book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. This conversation was wide-ranging. We talked about everything from what Jesus said is the root of the gospel, abortion, gun rights, and Donald Trump and the January

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Obery Hendricks on Faith and Feminism

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In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their

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Obery Hendricks featured on Christian Century

Obery Hendricks Condemns The Sins Of Right-Wing Evangelicalism | Christian Century

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Eddie Glaude describes Christians against Christianity as “a prophetic ‘takedown’ of right-wing evangelicalism like I have never seen before.” Brittney Cooper describes it as the “prophetic troublemaking and truth-telling” of “a righteous rabble-rouser.” Michael Eric Dyson says, “This book is pure fire!” The fiery prophetic tone that these scholars identify is a strength of the book. But

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