Presbyterian Mission Agency the cross and the lynching tree Archives

Dr. Delores S. Williams is remembered and reimagined

Posted November 22nd, 2022

Dr. Delores Seneva Williams, a seminal thinker and writer in the development of womanist theology, died at the age of 88 on Nov. 17, said her daughter, Celeste Williams.

Feeling like you belong

Posted August 29th, 2022

“Do you feel like you belong?” That’s what the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Rigby, the W.C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, asked the people attending Saturday’s Covenant Conversation at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. Rigby was the keynote speaker.

James Cone wins 2018 Grawemeyer Award in Religion

Posted December 13th, 2017

Between 1880 and 1940, nearly 5,000 black men and women were lynched in the United States. In response, African-American Christians turned to their religion and to the cross of Jesus as a symbol of suffering but also of profound hope. Despite these violent killings and the centrality of the cross in Christian communities, the lynching tree did not occupy any space in the American theological imagination.