Visions of Liberation (ABC News’ Spirituality Page)</h1> <article> <h1>Visions of Liberation (ABC News’ Spirituality Page)</h1> <p>JSorett — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:59:04 +0000</p> As of late liberation talk seems to have entered into the lofty ranks of a “top ten list” of public enemies in American politics and popular culture. This development began roughly two years ago, during the most recent presidential election. It was then that Sen. Barack Obama publicly severed ties with the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah [...] </article> <article> <h1>Forecasting Black Church Futures (Washington Post’s “On Faith”)</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:17:55 +0000</p> Although we are only about halfway into 2010, it has already been a year full of rich public conversations about religion in America. Much of the credit can be given to the emergence of several new blogs and web portals that direct concentrated attention to the topic. Indeed, there is much material to mine as [...] </article> <article> <h1>Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching (ReligionDispatches)</h1> <p>JSorett — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:28:57 +0000</p> 2003 was a pivotal year in the religious history of rap music, if for no other reason than the release of Kanye West’s debut album, The College Dropout, which featured the song “Jesus Walks.” This single signaled a new development in rap music, a genre that in its earlier years was firmly aligned with the [...] </article> <article> <h1>Call and Response on the State of the Black Church (New York Times)</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:44:49 +0000</p> Call and Response on the State of the Black Church by Samuel Freedman New York Times (April 17, 2010) In the first decade of the American nation, a former slave turned itinerant minister by the name of Richard Allen found himself preaching to a growing number of blacks in Philadelphia. He came to both a religious and organizational [...] </article> <article> <h1>What is the ‘black church’ (Washington Post’s “On Faith”)</h1> <p>JSorett — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:49:47 +0000</p> At the same time that President Obama was preparing to convene a meeting of black religious leaders at the White House, a debate had been brewing over the blogosphere, mostly among scholars of religion, regarding the significance of black churches in this historical moment. To attribute the cause of the former to the latter would [...] </article> <article> <h1>Further Black Church Dialoging (Bloggingheads.tv)</h1> <p>JSorett — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:27:15 +0000</p> I recently had the opportunity to continue the “post-black church” dialogue with Eddie Glaude on bloggingheads.tv, as part of their new series on religion: “Values Added.” My conversation with Dr. Glaude is embedded below, or you can go directly to bloggingheads.tv Share This </article> <article> <h1>The RZA’s Religious Ruminations (ReligionDispatches)</h1> <p>JSorett — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:24:44 +0000</p> RZA’s The Tao of Wu: Hip Hop Religion, Spiritual Sampling, and Race in a “Post-racial” Age You’d think that seven years after the release of Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” that there would be little need to explain the link between Hip Hop music and religion. Yet in a recent NPR interview, I was asked once again [...] </article> <article> <h1>The Black Church is Dead–Long Live the Black Church (ReligionDispatches)</h1> <p>JSorett — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:52:56 +0000</p> A few weeks ago, Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. published an obituary for the black church in the Huffington Post—the Digital-Age equivalent of nailing a set of theses to a church door. And while it is a brief article, short on the conventions of mourning, in it Glaude details the long, [...] </article> <article> <h1>A Celebration of Life: A Historian for the History Books</h1> <p>JSorett — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:10:10 +0000</p> John Hope Franklin, Black Historian, Dies at 94 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 25, 2009 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John Hope Franklin, a revered Duke University historian and scholar of life in the South and the African-American experience in the United States, died Wednesday. He was 94. Duke spokesman David Jarmul said Franklin died of congestive [...] </article> <article> <h1>Look out for “Watch This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism”</h1> <p>JSorett — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:02:07 +0000</p> As we near the end of the first Black History Month in age of the first black president, I want to quickly share with everyone the arrival of an important and timely book: Watch This: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, by Jonathan L. Walton. In case you didn’t already know, President Obama’s road to [...] </article> </main></body></html>