The Universe Bends Toward Justice"Who but Obery Hendricks would dare to read the parable of 'vines and branches' in the Fourth Gospel through the lens of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? Such a connect is characteristic of the way in which Obery articulates the racial and class inequities pervasive in our society and, with the same intensity, occupy the biblical text. He has written a provocative and persuasive primer on how to read the Bible faithfully and knowingly upstream against the

those who follow his path can accept no violence or domination toward people or creation in his name

” identifying in particu­lar a form of globalization that turns people into disposable consumers and increases the widening gap between the rich and poor

And there is only one way of preparing the new age

but attempts to uncover the cultural and socially-defined questions that were being posed

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He completed his Ph

including Varieties of African American Religious Experience

He is a founder of the Church in the 21st Century Lecture Series

Enriching the Western understanding of Jesus they employ new interpretive resources and their own cultural symbols and thought patterns as they meet Jesus anew and make sense of his message for their own time and place

D in theology and religious studies from the University of Leeds in England

an Irish Jesuit

His many books include The Spiritualtity of the Beatitudes