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Ypsilanti Historical Society The leaders of the black social gospel movement, including AME Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom, often faced opposition from their own congregations. Here, an AME congregation is assembled at Brown Chapel AME Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan. More

Most scholars say Jesus rejected the Torah’s kosher laws in the Gospel of Mark, but did he? A closer look at Mark 7 reveals a Jewish Christ—not a “parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity. More

The misinterpretation of the Gospel of Mark stems from the conflation of two entirely different systems of rules: kosher dietary laws, which forbid Jews from eating foods such as these creamy bacon cupcakes, and purity laws. Carrion (like the putrefying chicken above) is the only food that can More

Creative Commons/dbking The prosperity gospel — popularized in part through mass meetings like T. D. Jakes’s annual Pastors and Leadership Conference (above) — spreads the idea that “God’s word and the market operate as one unit,” Spence writes. More

“Which God Shall Rule?” Mammon (top) or the God spoken of by Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (below) when he said “placing ourselves on the side of the poor and attempting to give them life, we will know what the eternal truth of the Gospel consists of.” More