Theologians, scholars and clergy gathered for the 2021 Black Catholic Theological Symposium at the University of Notre Dame Oct. 7-9 in South Bend, Indiana, where speakers affirmed the activism of the ...

To be black and to be Christian is to remember the brutality of our experience and the brilliance of our resistance. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare ...

Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg met privately with a group of African American theologians and thought leaders in December, another sign of the candidate’s ...

James Deotis Roberts, one of the pioneers of the Black theology movement, died in his sleep on July 26. He was 95. Roberts, a former president of both the American Theological Society and the ...

Boston College Libraries curated a collection of resources and scholarship available within the library. These works surround topics of theology, race, racism, and justice, and hightlight works from ...

Black women are one of the most religious groups in America, according to a 2012 Kaiser Family Foundation-Washington Post survey. It's a statistic that writer, theologian and author Candice Marie ...

When James Cone died Saturday at 79, he was remembered as a theological giant. Cone made Christianity accessible to many people of color who had dismissed it as a "white man's religion." He was the ...

From the moment Europeans crossed the Atlantic in 1492, theology traveled with them. It was preached in cathedrals, whispered in slave cabins, inscribed in catechisms, and sung in spirituals. Yet ...

At Mount Holyoke College, the oldest of the Seven Sisters colleges, Danielle R. Holley was recently appointed as the school’s 20th president. At Boston University, Melissa Gilliam was recently ...

Uniformity is not unity, James Jones wants his fellow Latter-day Saints to know — and the latter can be found only within a society where there are no marginalized. The 36-year-old theologian is ...

Whether “churched,” a non-believer, or somewhere in between, faith functions in all of our lives, all the time. TheGrio’s new series explores the power of faith across belief systems. “Are you sure ...