A Jimmy Carter Kind of Baptist
Among my progressive Baptist friends, we have a saying about identity: “I am a Jimmy Carter kind of Baptist.” Deeply Christian, he was unwaveringly committed to racial justice, the inclusion of women [...]
Passover is a time of joy. As Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav says, “When the mind is linked to joy, it is taken out of bondage and becomes free.” In my famil[...]
Among my progressive Baptist friends, we have a saying about identity: “I am a Jimmy Carter kind of Baptist.” Deeply Christian, he was unwaveringly committed to racial justice, the inclusion of women [...]
Student Ryan Cagle, who grew up in what he describes as the “backwoods of Alabama and the foothills of Appalachia,” is pursuing both an MDiv in Social Transformation and an MA in Eco-Justice. For the [...]
In 1961, just before United was formed, Robert H. Bryant was hired as the successor to Frederick Herzog at Mission House Seminary. He came from Center College in Danville, Kentucky, and earned his BD [...]
“Since I was a teenager,” Rev. Cyreta Oduniyi reflects, “I always…said I would love to be a youth pastor.” So it made sense that she earned an MDiv in pastoral care and counseling. While at United, Cy[...]
Rev. Gloria Roach Thomas (’98) grew up in a small town in South Carolina. As she recalls, “I drank out of the colored water fountains, I went to the colored elementary school.” Still, she reflects, th[...]
At its most basic, Black liberation theology is a contextual theology that centers its focus on liberating Black people from historical and ongoing oppression—namely, the multi-layered, criminally zea[...]
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