James H. Cone defends Martin Luther King Jr. from the fundamentalists (January 27, 2020)

Have you or someone you've known ever called Martin Luther King Jr. a heretic? Sadly, I've witnessed it happen often. Every time that I've publicly praised MLK as America's most outstanding theologian, someone inevitably replies "No! He's a heretic!" or "A heretic cannot be America's greatest theologian!"  Fundamentalists are the […]

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The Life of Karl Barth: Trip to America in 1962 (Part 8) (April 7, 2019)

Trip to America in 1962 In 1962 and at the age of 75, Karl Barth was Coming to America at last! Barth had recently retired from the University of Basel and decided to take a seven week trip to lecture throughout the United States. [1]. Barth's trip to America introduced him […]

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J. Gresham Machen’s racist 1913 letter and agenda (and a defense of Karl Barth) (September 5, 2018)

The revelation of J Gresham Machen's 1913 racist letter to his mother and agenda at Princeton Seminary has caused defenders of Machen to justify Machen by making personal attacks on Karl Barth. I'd like to share a brief response. The original source of J. Gresham Machen's racist comments and agenda […]

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James Cone: Martin Luther King, Jr. is America’s Most Outstanding Theologian (January 18, 2015)

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (1929—1968) birthday was January 15, 1929 and he would have been 86 years old, if he had lived until today. MLK was assassinated on Thursday, April 4, 1968 when he was 39 years old in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Tomorrow is the only major federal holiday […]

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Jürgen Moltmann on Humane Revolution: The goal of Christian universalism can be realized precisely through the dialectic of siding with the humiliated. (October 12, 2014)

Humane Revolution (source:wikipedia) Jürgen Moltmann's lecture "God in Revolution" in Religion, Revolution and the Future was the 'opening lecture of the World Student Christian Federation Conference, July 23, 1968, Turku, Finland.' The lecture contained seven theses. I enjoyed the way in which Moltmann introduced them: I do not want to begin this student conference with a well-polished […]

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