On American Spirituality and The Black Church Featuring Dr. Obery Hendricks
This episode features an interview with Dr. Obery Hendricks, one of the most prolific African American Christian authors, on American Spirituality, more specifically the current state and future role of the Black Church.
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Obery Hendricks
A life long social activist, Obery Hendricks is a noted commentator on the intersection of religion and political economy in America. He is the most widely read and perhaps the most influential African American biblical scholar writing today. Cornel West calls him “one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals.” His most recent book, Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals are Destroying our Nation and Our Faith (Beacon, 2021) is hailed as “brilliant” (Eddie Glaude, Jr.) and “a must-read book for this crucial moment in our nation’s history” (Robert P. Jones).
Hendricks’ bestselling book, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted (Doubleday, 2006), was declared “essential reading for Americans” by the Washington Post.
A former Wall Street investment executive and past president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African American theological seminary in the US and a former Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, he is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in the Department of Religion and the Department of African American and African Diasporic Studies; a Senior Lecturer at Yale Divinity School; and Emeritus Professor of Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary. An Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hendricks holds the Master of Divinity with academic honors from Princeton Theological Seminary, and both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Religions of Late Antiquity from Princeton University.
