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Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is assistant pastor for special projects at Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and professor of African American studies and sociology at Colby College.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
The killing of George Floyd and the meaning of kneeling
When we see a white police officer kneeling on a black body, squeezing the breath of life out of that body, we are witnessing an act of worship.
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