#btli

Jamye Wooten Chosen as 2014 Princeton Fellow

Kinetics founder will be one among fifty Fellows attending the 2014 Black Theology and Leadership Institute @ Princeton Theological Seminary

The Black Theology and Leadership Institute is a weeklong intensive continuing education event for clergy and laity for training, worship, and fellowship. The institute is designed for clergy and lay leaders who would like to deepen their thinking and…

So here is the challenge for all of us who seek to study and live out #BlackLiberationTheology; no matter where you go or what you do, whether it is at historically white elite institutions, historically African American institutions or anywhere else in between, you have the responsibility to speak TRUTH TO POWER. Don't back down and don't sell out. If you are going to talk the talk, then WALK the walk. Put this unabashedly African American centered theology into ACTION. In addition, at some point African American people will have to realize that if we really seek true liberation, we will have to build and sustain our own schools of theology, institutes and programs to promote and teach African American Liberation and Womanist Theology. Like Sister Audre Lorde said, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

-Min. F. Romall Smalls, M.Div. 

Associate Minister for Social Justice

Grace Baptist Church

Mount Vernon, NY