This is beautifully articulated by Blair Underhood (HT Zondervan, The Bible Experience)....

The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History. A Review ( Part II) We continue with Part II of the review. Reading 3, (“Establishing the Circle: National [ist] Identities and Formations) this period precedes the Civil War. Wimbush discusses the following factors. First, for many blacks, this pe...

Michael Joseph Brown is Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and Associate Director of the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Brown's scholarship is described as astute, judicious, and critically engaging and expresses familiarity with the text of...

A fascinating article featured in National Geographic for the month of February entitled , "Black Pharaohs." (click here to read the entire article) Robert Draper, the author of this piece, writes, "For 75 years Nubian kings ruled over ancient Egypt, reunifying the country and building an empire. Un...

Million thanks to the good folks at Augsburg Fortress ( The Bible and African Americans by Vincent L. Wimbush; Stony the Road We Trod by Cain Hope Felder, and Paul: A Fresh Perspective by N.T. Wright) and Wipf & Stock Publishers (Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John by Paul H...