Watch leading theologian James Cone give a talk called "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" at Vanderbilt Divinity School April 3, 2013.

Prominent scholars explored the current and future impact of the black church during a time of deep divisions in race, culture and religion at a Vanderbilt Divinity School conference called "The Black Church's 11th Hour: The Promise of Our Ideals and the Realities of Our Time."

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