22nd Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture

Eric Martin
Loyola Marymount University

While Christianity has been associated with the recent rise of white nationalism in the U.S., pockets of the church have also been combating racist and totalitarian ideologies. This talk offers up profiles of Christian resistance against Nazis and the KKK from Charlottesville, during the largest white supremacist event in modern American history, and the theologies that animated them. From Reverend Traci Blackmon's exegesis of David and Goliath and Grace Aheron's conception of destructive prayer that led her to create an antifascist house church, street theologians have been pointing a way forward by challenging mainstream notions of civility and nonviolence and pushing further than the USCCB teachings on racism.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.