April 1, 2025
A Conversation with Ayana Mathis (Video)
Duration: 51 minutes
Racial Justice
The persistence of racism in the United States and around the world is an affront to the value of human equality set down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020 the Berkley Center has worked with partners inside and outside the university to highlight the theme of racial justice and the resources within and across religious traditions to advance it in practice.
June 8, 2022
Ballroom C, 4th Session, Youth interreligious cooperation to fight racism in the Americas (English) (Video)
Duration: 1 hours 24 minutes
November 17, 2021
Georgetown Center on Faith + Justice: Race, Religion and Voting Rights (Video)
Duration: 1 hours 28 minutes
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A Conversation with Ayana Mathis
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. EDT Healy Hall
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Article May 1, 2023
Not Nothing: A Mystical Theological Reading of “Nihilism in Black America”
This book chapter by Senior Fellow Andrew Prevot re-examines Cornel West's writing on "Nihilism in Black America" in the context of the Movement for Black Lives, the rise of of Afropessimist theory, and the lens of Christian mystical theology, arguing for the nihilism-defeating power of divine love.
Other Publications
Book February 1, 2022
Article December 6, 2021
Moral Faith and the Legacy of John Lewis's Political Vision of “Good Trouble”
January 6, 2022
Black Faith and the Black Radical Tradition
What insights might the ethical turn in Black radical thought provide to the ongoing search for freedom, social justice, and democratic possibilities for all? In what ways might the history of Black religious radicalism find resonance today?
April 22, 2021
The Future of U.S. Evangelical Christianity
What might recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention suggest about the future of U.S. evangelical Christianity? What theological, biblical, or ethical resources could inspire a more inclusive or prophetic evangelicalism going forward?
April 8, 2021
The Black Church in American Public Life
How do lessons from the history of Black churches resonate today, a moment marked by public discourse on racial justice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a resurgence of white Christian nationalism? What historical and contemporary roles do women play in Black churches?
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