Epilogue: Thy Will Be Done

The book closes with a reflective return to the 1980s to consider more deeply the transnational connections that undergird the antiapartheid movement. The tenants of Christianity sometimes clandestinely connected civil rights leaders, historically Black college students, and even progressive whites to protest, boycott, and press for sanctions on an international stage that did not always have the historical context found in the histories captured in Kingdom Come. Figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, and even my own father had strong and underexplored ties to Black Christian organizing circles despite drawing support from multiracial and even ecumenical religious spaces. The epilogue centers the space of memory to suggest that alternative Black religious spaces have often existed despite clergy's commitment to working beyond these groups.The book closes with a reflective return to the 1980s to consider more deeply the transnational connections that undergird the antiapartheid movement. The tenants of Christianity sometimes clandestinely connected civil rights leaders, historically Black college students, and even progressive whites to protest, boycott, and press for sanctions on an international stage that did not always have the historical context found in the histories captured in Kingdom Come. Figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, and even my own father had strong and underexplored ties to Black Christian organizing circles despite drawing support from multiracial and even ecumenical religious spaces. The epilogue centers the space of memory to suggest that alternative Black religious spaces have often existed despite clergy's commitment to working beyond these groups.