His concern was to state the primacy of faith in relation to reason on matters of theological discourse. We have another concern and thus must rephrase that question in the light of our cultural history, asking: “What has Africa to do with Jerusalem, and what difference does Jesus make for African people oppressed in North America?” As Gerard Bissa

the death of the man on the tree has radical implications for those who are enslaved, lynched, and ghettoized in the name of God and country. In order to do theology from that standpoint, they must ask the right questions and then go to the right sources for the answers. The right questions are always related to the basic question: What has the gos

Who found me when I was lost?

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. Thro’ many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; ’Tis grace hath bro't me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

and the concreteness of the historical reality from which the vision is created bestow upon us a new perspective, a black perspective that grants free thinking in relation to our cultural history and thus enables us to hear the urgent call to speak the truth. In this context, truth is not an intellectual datum that is entrusted to academic guilds.

confesses to “scripture-phobia”3 and Gary Comstock offers no theological excuses for the Leviticus text (20:13) which condemns gays to death. “How many times and in how many ways do we have to be told that we should be killed before we take it seriously? Is not once enough?”4

Human beings are made for each other and no people can realize their full humanity except as they participate in its realization for others.

If de blues was whiskey, I'd stay drunk all de time.

Jesus Christ is not a proposition, not a theological concept which exists merely in our heads. He is an event of liberation, a happening in the lives of oppressed people struggling for political freedom. Therefore, to know him is to encounter him in the history of the weak and the helpless.