Tag: The Christian Century

  • Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to serve as top executive of a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode.

  • We aren’t playing the race card; we are analyzing the racialized deck. Taking Jesus Seriously The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully 2014-12-08 Drew G. I. Hart Changing the game and changing our rhetoric around race and racism. I would be rich if I got money for every time a white person told me that…

  • Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully. 2013-01-23 Rachel Stone The one time I visited my maternal grandfather’s house, we had planned to stay four days. I was ten and had seen my grandfather just once before in my life. I don’t recall if he ever spoke to me,…

  • Books: Black and white thinking The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Brian Bantum. Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and…

  • The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Jonathan Tran, Assistant Professor of Religion Baylor University, Waco, Texas Read Edward Antonio’s review of Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto (subscription required) A couple years ago, when the Century asked some leading theologians to name five “essential theology books of the past…