Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks converses with Rev. Robert A. Morton, pastor of Bethel AME Church in Chico, California, on the 5th District AME Midyear Conference. Learn more about this here: MidYear “Faith” Conference interview series
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Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks shares his thoughts on Lift Every Voice Lecture Series 2022. Learn more about this here: Lift Every Voice Lecture Series 2022
Obery Hendricks: Christian activism includes setting the record straight on ChristianityA scholar-activist talks about his new book, “Christians Against Christianity,” in which he details how right-wing Christians have distorted the faith. Read more about this here: Obery Hendricks: Christian activism includes setting the record straight on Christianity
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As an African American native of Chicago, having been an elected official in the Deep South, this is going to be my take on politics. 2021 Black Podcast Awards Nominee for Best Black Political Podcast. Listen to the podcast here: On American Spirituality and The Black Church Featuring Dr. Obery Hendricks
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr. to talk about his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. Dr. Obery Hendricks, Jr, who Cornel West calls, “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals,” is a lifelong activist and arguably the most influential African American
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Obery Hendricks Jr., a religion professor at Columbia University, said last week that Christians who refuse to wear masks are possessed by “the spirit of antichrist.” “These folk are not fulfilling their gospel responsibility. They’re violating it. They’re spitting in the face of it,” Hendricks said. “It’s anti-biblical. It’s anti-Christian. And I’ll go farther …
Theologian-activist Obery M. Hendricks Jr. is one such elder who continues to emphasize the ways in which his faith influences his activism, insisting that Christianity’s ethical imperatives are good. Read the full article here: Obery Hendricks Thinks Marxist Analysis Can Help Christians
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HOW CAN CHRISTIANS support the party of Donald Trump — a man who has boasted about sexually assaulting women, uses the Bible as an obvious prop as he tear-gasses protestors, and lies almost as often as he breathes? For many progressive Christians, the answer is obvious: white evangelical conservatives in the Trump era are desecrating
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From the moment of his announcement that he was running for the presidency Donald Trump directed his efforts towards courting white evangelicals with racist and anti-immigrant sentiments. But he didn’t start this trend, he simply hopped on a bandwagon that had been gaining speed for years. Author, scholar, and ordained minister Obery Hendricks and I
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Christians Against Christianity hits hard. Really hard. But it is also measured, thoughtful, reasoned, and carefully presented. The style is concise and evidence-based, with research on evangelical leadership, statements and polled positions of right-wing evangelicals, and serious biblical scholarship. According to the book jacket, the writer, Obery Hendricks, is a “best-selling author, an activist, a religious scholar,
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