Lynched

Angela D. Sims is President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. Echoes of a Not So Distant Past: African Americans Remember Lynching Chapter 2. Courageous Truth Telling: Historical Remembrance as an Ethical-Theological Mandate Chapter 3. Faithful Witness: Oral Narratives and Human Agency Chapter 4. Unrelenting Tenacity: In the Shadow of the Lynching Tree Chapter 5. Lessons, Concerns, Hopes: Embodying an Ethic of Resilient Resistance Notes Index

Sims offers ethical insights that shed light on lynching culture and how we continue to experience its effects today. -- James L. Gorman -- Reading Religion Using oral histories, Sims provides the Christian community with a canon of testimonies that illustrate the scriptural imperative to walk by faith and not by sight. The testimonies of the African American elders are replete with biblical allusions and comparisons, such as the failure to love one's neighbor, the suffering servant, the road to Calvary, and the trek to the lynching tree. -- Marcia Y. Riggs -- Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology Simply for the way it collects and preserves the stories of dozens of African American survivors of the lynching era, Angela D. Sims' Lynched should be considered required reading for every US citizen. But in explicating the theological, sacramental, ethical, and ecclesiological significance of these memories, Sims makes a vital contribution to the field of theology as well. -- Katie Grimes -- Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society