Medium (20-45 mins)
Doctrine
Unknown
Rootedness: Beyond Skin Deep
Theologian
Willie Jennings
Duration
26.53
Uploaded to YouTube
23 January 2013
Added to Database
25 September 2025
YouTube description
When called upon to define who we are, not many think to mention our land and neighbors. But it wasn't always that way. Willie Jennings, Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School, invites a return to the rootedness that communities used to enjoy. His book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, suggests connections should grow from shared spaces--not shared attributes such as skin color--and that Christians need to be modeling this. Karen Saupe hosts.
