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2025 Black Religious Autobiography Seminar

The office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a week-long seminar exploring the autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Ida B. Wells, and other Black autobiographers and memoirists who used their life stories as weapons in the quest for freedom and humanization. 

July 19 - 26, 2025
Durham , North Carolina

The Waiting Church: How to Face the Crisis

It feels like the church is in an unquestioned crisis. But what is the shape of this crisis? And have we misunderstood it? Learn more in this public lecture with Andrew Root

August 4, 2025, 7:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Demythologizing Freedom and the Beloved Community: A Practical Theology
July 14, 2022, 8:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Black Faith, Black Spirituality, and the American Story
July 11 - 14, 2022
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Liturgical Practices of Enslaved Africana People in the American Colonial Period As Witnessed in Select [En]slave[d] Narratives
July 13, 2022, 8:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Unfinished Business: From the Great Migration to Black Lives Matter
July 12, 2022, 8:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymns from ‘One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: An African American Ecumenical Hymnal’
July 11, 2022, 8:00 PM
Grand Rapids, Michigan