Willis Jenkins on fossil fuels, white nationalism, and evangelicals on our blog, For the Time Being.
Month: April 2017
Contempt For Creation | Willis Jenkins
Why are so many American Christians seemingly unbothered by the gutting of the institutions and policies dedicated to protecting our environment? Does the blame lie in Christianity itself? There have been those who thought so. Indeed, in the 1960s a certain line of cultural criticism began to hold western Christianity culpable for industrial society’s chronic…
Trump, Knowledge vs. Truth, and Scholar Activism: An Interview with Emilie Townes
The Reverend Dr Emilie Townes is a glass-ceiling shatterer. She was the first African American woman president of the American Academy of Religion and made that a double first when she became the dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she is also the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society….