“Black liberation theology alive and well”: James Cone at YDS
A theology rooted in the thought and experience of the most marginalized segment of the population would appear to have little chance of making an impact. But black liberation theology is “alive and well,” testified the man credited with founding the doctrine, James Cone, in remarks at Yale Divinity School on April 19. “Black liberation theology is being taught at colleges and seminaries, and being preached in churches, all over the world,” said Cone, whose seminal book Black Theology & Black Power was the focus of YDS’s all-school reads program spring semester.
Panel addresses violence in cities
Before an audience of 300 people in Chicago, Yale Divinity School convened an important panel conversation on April 3 called “Violence: A Faithful Response to the Plague in our Neighborhoods and Nation.” Organized jointly with the Association of Yale Alumni, the panel was composed of three Chicago-area leaders (one of them a YDS alumnus, Otis Moss III ’95MDiv) and a member of the YDS faculty, Willie Jennings. In American culture, “guns are fundamental,” Jennings said. “One could even speak of them biblically. ‘In the beginning was the weapon, and the weapon was with God. . . .’” (A video of the event is available on the YDS YouTube channel.)
Transforming joy from a feeling to a pastoral movement
The Yale Center for Faith and Culture at YDS is reaching across lines of racial, religious, and political division with a call to advance an under-studied subject: joy. Through its “50 States of Joy” campaign and sermon series competitions, YCFC is inviting pastors from every state to preach a series on joy. The campaign and competitions are part of the larger Theology of Joy & the Good Life project, funded by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
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