Obery Hendricks on Valley & Mountain Fellowship Each week, the people of Valley and Mountain Fellowship recite this offertory prayer: “Wellspring of life, help us to use our offerings to make peace in our community. Set us free from fear, hoarding, and hostility, and renew in us the desire to become open-handed and open-hearted. Teach […]
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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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
This is not the time warp we want to do again. Or ever. The conservative-majority SCOTUS wants to take us on a detour back in time when folks who aren’t straight white cis men didn’t have rights. A time when we thought of the planet as nothing more than an ashtray. A time when .
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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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Welcome to the second conversation in our series, “The Moment of Now.” Happy Pride Month and Juneteenth! In this episode Tommy, Olivia and Becka talk with Dr. Obery Hendricks. This conversation helps to challenge us as we think about the “Left” and the “Right,” as we use these terms to stake out political sides, what are
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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 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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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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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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