This is a great interview from yesterday with James Cone, the father of black liberation theology.
His incredibly powerful and important books include: God of the Oppressed; A Theology of Black Liberation; For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church.
A couple of the very good points of which he makes and reminds us in this interview....
JC: "It makes a difference out of which context you read the Bible."
TG: "Describe what your church was like."
JC: "When we black people came to church on Sunday, we experienced a reality that let us know that we were God's children, not somebody else's maid, somebody else's janitor.... Church was the place that affirmed your somebodyness in a society that treated you as nobodies. That's why I discovered [in church] as a little child."
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