BOGOTA DECLARATION 2009

[click on the above image for fuller display. photo by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin in BRICKS magazine] BOGOTÁ DECLARATION 2009 FAITH AND RESISTANCE FOR PEACE AND LIFE IN THE AGE OF U.S./GLOBAL EMPIRE             With the powers of dance, music, testimonies and prayers, and enriched by multiple analyses, we Colombian peoples’ movements, and international delegates in solidarity, issue […]

Letter for Palestine: to My Faculty’s Executive Council

(for credits, click on the top image) from Professor Mark L. Taylor, Theology Department, PTS, January 14, 2024 With this note I make appeal to Princeton Seminary’s Faculty Executive Council (FEC). I request that the FEC begin to take steps towards organizing the faculty toward the making of a Collective Faculty Statement to be completed […]

US CHRISTIANS SAYING “NO!” TO US/ISRAELI GENOCIDE

By Mark Lewis Taylor Click on above photo, from The Times of Israel with caption: Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, head of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) (right) and IDF chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, visit the Israeli Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 commando unit, April 27, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces) There is probably nothing more important for […]

Trump’s Assault on the U.S. Capitol

See also my recent essay, “Trumpism and Césaire’s ‘Terrible Boomerang Effect’“ Jan 6, 2021 – Letter to Students in My Courses on White Supremacism and Social Justice -by Professor Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary PHOTO ABOVE RIGHT: At the Lincoln Memorial during ongoing protests against police brutality and the death of George Floyd. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images) […]

SEMINARIES STUDYING SLAVERY AS ABOLITION STRUGGLE

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LETTER TO MY ACADEMIC DEAN(S) & SEMINARY COLLEAGUES – WHY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL?

by Mark Lewis Taylor Over the years and recently again, I have found it necessary to explain why I consider my political advocacy and work for Mumia Abu-Jamal to be integral to my professional work. I even dedicated my last published book to Mumia Abu-Jamal. I am grateful to a former Dean many years ago […]

THE VIOLENCE TODAY – IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT ‘HATE’

Mark Lewis Taylor This essay first appeared in CounterPunch on November 5, 2018. Look deeply into the violence on display today in the United States and we will see more than just generalized “hate.” We are not suffering only from disrespectful discourse or some deficiency in liberal civility. On the contrary, today’s hate has a certain structure. […]