Institute for Black Church Studies

Good Faith Media Podcast features Dr. Brogdon

Nov 17, 2021 | Media Appearances, News

Mitch Randall and Autumn Lockett with Good Faith Media interview Dr. Lewis Brogdon and Sarah Riggs Reed regarding the significance of the 2021 Festival of Faiths. This year’s focus is: “Sacred Change: Essential Conversations on Faith and Race.” Listen to the...

WFPL interviews Brogdon ahead of Festival of Faiths

Nov 17, 2021 | Media Appearances, News

Listen to NPR station WFPL interview Dr. Lewis Brogdon regarding the upcoming Festival of Faiths (Nov 18-20, 2021), with the theme, ““Sacred Change: Essential Conversations on Faith and Race.” (Festival of Faiths). “We’re really in a period of reckoning,”...

Dr. Brogdon participates in upcoming Leadership Summit

Nov 3, 2021 | News

Dr. Lewis Brogdon, Executive Director of BSK’s Institute for Black Church Studies, will be presenting at a Leadership Summit at Spirit of Liberty Worship Center in Roanoke, VA, this weekend. Dr. Brogdon will also be preaching at Spirit of Liberty. Dr....

Tickets now available for purchase for Brogdon’s Festival of Faiths session

Oct 26, 2021 | News

Louisville’s Festival of Faiths, scheduled for November 18-20, will feature a session led by BSK’s Dr. Lewis Brogdon. This session is entitled, “Black Faith’s Encounter with Black Trauma, Pain and Nihilism” and will take place on Friday...

Noted author tells BSK forum white supremacy permeates U.S. culture

Oct 14, 2021 | News

The issue of white supremacy in the United States is not confined to people of the past who spewed racial hatred, researcher and author Robert P. Jones told a BSK forum. “When most white people hear the word white supremacy, they immediately conjure up a kind of...

Resources for Further Study

Oct 11, 2021 | News, Resources

Here are a few resources on the troubling legacy and current crisis of white Christianity in America. 1. Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021). 2. Obery M. Hendricks...