He is also an anthology that explores the sexual politics of black churches so without further ado please welcome josef sorret. [applause] good evening everyone. Thank you valerie for that introduction thread i want to thank our sponsors as well as their host for the opportunity to moderate this panel of insightful incisive commentators engaging leaders that i want to quickly stay themes of our panel and introduce a panelist and open it up for conversation. Of course this evening our event is entitled the New Jerusalem black life life the church in the struggle for democracy. Our hosts have given us the charge of taking on the theme of the fact that religious belief religious institutions and religious people came to be seen as essential to social freedom. This remains the central paradox in africanamerican life and political history. Our discussion will examine the overlapping challenges of creating a basis for collective activism building independent black institutions determining th
Commentators engaging leaders that i want to quickly stay themes of our panel and introduce a panelist and open it up for conversation. Of course this evening our event is entitled the New Jerusalem black life life the church in the struggle for democracy. Our hosts have given us the charge of taking on the theme of the fact that religious belief religious institutions and religious people came to be seen as essential to social freedom. This remains the central paradox in africanamerican life and political history. Our discussion will examine the overlapping challenges of creating a basis for collective activism building independent black institutions determining the place of men women politics and religion in leadership. Now to our panelists who all have long is such that they could take up the entire night so i will list the titles of their books and move into the conversation. First to my most immediate right and moving further along the panel. First is anthea butler, the author of
Maybe before we open it up i would be interested to hear where do you see that sight of hope . Where do you see something being made out of nothing, the sort of black tradition . Is there a possibly that there is, if the black church is dying, some sort of resurrection . Is there collaboration . Was the prospect of moving the conversation in a meaningful way in this moment . Real good question, and in my experience theres a lot of hope in the pew, the pulpit is largely in the way. A critique of clergy, because folks know whats wrong. They know that something has to change, but if you are raised like i was initially, youve got this old time religion, you know somethings wrong but you dont know what to do about it. Or you feel something is wrong but you dont know what it is. What that says is that remedial christianity has to be consciousnessraising christianity. For instance, we touched on democracy but democracy is something that is not just some abstract word thats out there. Somethin
The Jezebel in the black consciousness church thought she could influence and manipulate me into worshiping her fake malevolent deity called Yahawah (which is really Yahweh, also called Jehovah), etc.
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