Racial Equity Resources

Rev. Dr. James Cone, was ordained in the AME church and founder of Black Liberation Theology. His experiences with racism, the assassination of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Euro-centric teachings in seminary led to him developing a new approach to Christian  interpretation. Cone upended Christian theology by centering blackness as part of God’s essential nature. He connected the brutality of the cross to the practice of lynching in America, asserting that Jesus was the “first lynchee.” Learn more about Black Theology and James Cone's body of work. 

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