Cross Currents

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Articles in Summer 2007 issue of Cross Currents

• When the Mahatma met Jesus: Gandhianism, African American evangelism and the fight for racial justice
  by Ray Arsenault
• You got a right to the tree of life: African American spirituals and religions of the diaspora
  by Rachel Elizabeth Harding
• Righteous politics: the role of the black church in contemporary politics
  by Melissa V. Harris-Lacewell
• Sorrow songs and flying away: religious influence on black poetry
  by Yusef Komunyakaa
• "Be ye doers of the word, not just hearers only": faith and politics in the life of Victoria Gray Adams
  by Vicki Crawford
• America's original sin: the legacy of white racism
  by Jim Wallis
• Bling and blessings: thoughts on the intersections of rap music and religious meaning
  by Anthony B. Pinn
• The power of reconciliation: from the apostle paul to Malcolm X
  by Curtiss Paul DeYoung
• Riding into history
  by William W. Maxwell
• Repairing the past: polarities of restorative justice
  by Donald W. Shriver
• Reconciliation then and now
  by Margo Hammond
• Jesus and justice: an outline of liberation theology within black churches
  by Anthony B. Pinn
• Christians and slavery
  by William W. Maxwell
• Prosperity theology: T.D. Jakes and the gospel of the almighty dollar
  by Shayne Lee
• Scorning their own
  by William W. Maxwell
• Words from the pulpit: faith in a foreign land
  by Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
• Out of Africa
  by William W. Maxwell
• Race and religion: the elixir of separation
  by William W. Maxwell
• Finding meaning in the harsh landscape of living
  by Margo Hammond
• Practicing diversity
  by William W. Maxwell
• Remember history: an interview with John Hope Franklin
  by Margo Hammond
• Fighting health disparities: the educational role of the African American church
  by E. Paulette Isaac