First, I seek to revitalize narratives of Jesus as the suffering servant, then to reimagine the salvific work of atonement, and finally, to demythologize the triumph of Jesus on the cross.
Rape Culture Within the Black Church: A Politics of Recognition as a Critical Response to Jezebelian (Ho/Lady) Discourse
This paper was written by Desiree McCray for Professor Keri Day for the course Black Religion in the New Public Square at Princeton Theological Seminary on May 6, 2019. "To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to a man, nor to deny them to her.-Simone de Beauvoir Rape culture exists in …
The Criminalization of Black Womanhood and State Sanctioned Brutality as Conduits of the Carceral State
"The stark and sobering reality is that, for reasons largely unrelated to actual crime trends, the American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history."― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness This paper was written by Desiree McCray for Professor Mark Taylor for the …