Ideological battle lines are often drawn between those who take the authority of their religious scriptures and traditions seriously, on one side, and those who advocate for social justice and prophetic political witness, on the other. Is this divide real? Do the faithful have to choose between a scriptural tradition and social justice? Or is this a false—even pernicious—dilemma? Our guest today, Esau McCaulley, argues that the Black church tradition, with its particular historical ways of reading scripture, offers resources to connect the Christian faith with urgent contemporary political concerns. Reading the Bible through the prism of the black American experience offers us a way to rethink theological discussions of race, gender, political resistance, policing, and slavery.
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