Theologian Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr. describes the Jesus he was introduced to in his church communities as a meek and gentle Savior: I was raised on the bland Jesus of Sunday school and of my mother’s gentle retellings, the meek, mild Jesus who told us, in a nice, passive, sentimental way, to love our enemies, […]
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The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (2006) by Obery Hendricks Jr. In a similar vein to the seminal books Jesus and the Disinherited and God of the Oppressed, The Politics of Jesus places Jesus back into his proper social, political, and economic context so we can better and more
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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
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
Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith” by Obery M. Hendricks The words in Amazon’s description, including “galvanizing,” “scathing,” and “clarion call,” are certainly on point. This will be a “love it or hate it” book, for sure. I’d love to sit down with Dr. Hendricks some time and
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Obery Hendricks and Sabrina E. Dent, two of the foremost experts on race, religion, and American politics, gathered on Tuesday (Feb. 7) for a virtual “kitchen table-style conversation” about the state of White Christian Nationalism. The hour-long event, moderated by Candace Bond-Theriault, was organized by Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights, and Religion Project to celebrate
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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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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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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 …