Daily Archives: January 22, 2010

Lemuel Haynes: Black Calvinist, Political Revolutionary

The enslaved African Americans who first gathered for illegal worship sessions on the eighteenth and nineteenth century plantations also had burning bush experiences.  In the African American Christian traditions, the Exodus motif has been utilized as an inspiration of God’s … Continue reading

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Childhoods: Power as Imagination

The Imaginary How powerful is the idea of childhood? When I hear conversations of newlywed married couples (or relatively new, as in less than two years of marriage), there is a great anxiety on their part when their friends ask … Continue reading

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Nate the Great- A Theological Poem

Nate the Great “There once was a man named Nathaniel. He was the son of Canaan and curse along with the rest of the family of Ham. Nathaniel grew up to become a big, dark black man with a powerful … Continue reading

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