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.

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“Christians Against Christianity” Takes Right-Wing Evangelicals to Task

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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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Obery Hendricks on Spirit Talk

Can we bridge the Christian Divide? | Spirit Talk

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Interactive conversation, food, live music, and community building. Dr. Obery M. Hendricks Jr.Columbia University, New YorkAuthor of Christians Against Christians: How Right Wing Evangelicals are Destroying our Nation and our FaithThe Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted Learn more about this event here: Can

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Obery Hendricks on Dangerous Dogma

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Obery Hendricks on Dangerous Dogma In episode 32 of Dangerous Dogma, Obery Hendricks, a visiting research scholar at Columbia University, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. He also discusses Donald Trump’s visit to First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Obery Hendricks on Yass, Jesus!

Dr. Obery Hendricks on Christians Against Christianity

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We speak with Dr. Obery Hendricks, a Biblical scholar at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. His new book Christians Against Christianity discusses the moral roots of the Bible to illustrate the hypocrisy of evangelical right-wing rhetoric, including a chapter on the religious Right’s condemnation of homosexuality and how it runs antithetical to the foundational

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Review: Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

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Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s new book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith is “packin’ heat!” Recent research indicates that the white American evangelical church is hemorrhaging. The Public Religion Research Institute released a report in July 2021 indicating that white evangelical Christians are “declining…significantly.” In 2006 white evangelicals represented 23% of

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Obery Hendricks on the 2021 Conference of National Black Churches Annual Consultaiton

The Oppressive Christology | 2021 CNBC Annual Consultation

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The Conference of National Black Churches’ (CNBC) Annual Consultation is a groundbreaking gathering of the leading voices in the Black church, social justice, and the health and medical fields with a special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Rev. Dr. Obery Hendricks, Jr. is one of the panels of The Oppressive Christology: The White Jesus. Learn

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Obery Hendricks on Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Obery Hendricks on Americans United For Separation of Church and State

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In the book The Future of Faith in American Politics, Mercer University ethicist David Gushee highlighted Obery Hendricks as a key example, along with Jesse Jackson, of “the Black evangelical left.” Hendricks doesn’t like the “e-word” label because, as he writes in his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our

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