Moved by the Spirit

Christophe D. Ringer is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Society at Chicago Theological Seminary.Teresa L. Smallwood is James Franklin Kelly and Hope Eyster Kelly Associate Professor of Public Theology at United Lutheran Seminary. Emilie M. Townes is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Ethics and Society and University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

Since first landing on these shores in 1619, each generation of Black people has faced the continual assault on the simple idea that our lives have meaning. Often lethal, almost always violent, this ever present attack on Black Life has also given rise in each generation to social and political resistance. The chroniclers of that resistance have given not just voice to the moment but also inspiration to later generations. Moved By The Spirit joins the library of texts made sacred as witness to the Black struggle for life. This book's value for today is immense. Its contribution to the future inestimable.

• Foreword, Emilie TownesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Teresa L. Smallwood and Christophe D. RingerPart One: Black Public Theology Chapter One: “Today is Not My Day to Die”: Public Theology, Precarious Lives, and the Politics of the Streets, Michael Brandon McCormack and Stachelle BusseyChapter Two: Black Lives Matter: A Black Theological Hauntology, Charlene Sinclair Chapter Three: Their Words Became Flesh, Teresa L. SmallwoodChapter Four: We Gon’ Be Alright: Public Theology, Subjectivity and Experiencing the Sacred in the Movement for Black Lives, Christophe D. RingerPart Two: Black Humanity Chapter Five: Self-Amending Blackness and The Movement for Black Lives: Justice and Leadership in Liberatory Spaces, Forrest E. HarrisChapter Six: On In(Visibilities), José Francisco Morales TorresChapter Seven: The Emergence of the Black Buddhist Radical Tradition, Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Rima Vesely-FladPart Three: Black Churches Chapter Eight: The Black Church Movement Profile is Dead: The Audac