t.d. jakes

A Cubit Illustrated Guide.

I want to argue that we need to have a more expansive understanding of black religious identities, an understanding that Womanist Theologians have already pushed us toward, an understanding that does not compartmentalize black religious thought and responses into shallow categories like “right/conservative/prayerful” and “left/academic/protester”; categories that are too small, too static, and too constricting for us to comprehend the diversity of black religious lives and black political activity.

American Pentecostals embroiled in the religious and political life of newly-created nation.

What happens when God’s “anointed” one claims victimhood.

Christians defend the president’s faith. Is that the right tack?

The obsession with black womens’ marital status obscures their dire economic state.

Who put the mega in megachurch? Two new books, one on star evangelicals and one that focuses on African-American televangelists, tell the story—and explain the remarkable influence of celebrity preachers in the religious marketplace.