Obery Hendricks

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.

A month ahead of an important election, Union Presbyterian Seminary webinar explores the danger Christian nationalism poses

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Panelists encourage both clergy and laity to show up and speak out On Monday, less than a month before a pivotal presidential election, a panel convened by Union Presbyterian Seminary’s Center for Social Justice and Reconciliation took on the issue of Christian nationalism at home. Panelists joining the webinar’s host, Dr. Rodney S. Sadler Jr., Associate Professor of

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“Faith & Democracy: Confronting White Christian Nationalism” – Panel discussion webinar with Dr. Hendricks and other thought leaders (hosted by The Christian Century)

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Read more about the event here: https://www.nyscoc.org/event/faith-and-democracy-confronting-white-christian-nationalism

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The Darkly Radiant Vision of the Black Social Gospel (A Listening Heart: Can We Temper Polarization?)

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In the 1880s and 1890s, a stream of Black Methodist and Baptist ministers pressed a desperate question: What would a new abolition be? Abolitionism and the Civil War had come and gone, Reconstruction had come and been forsaken, and a mania of racist terrorism descended on Black Americans. The U.S. imposed a racial caste system

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