This is my response to the article by Professor Glaude (See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eddie-glaude-jr-phd/the-black-church-is-dead_b_473815.html) :
Not since Joseph Washington, Jr.’s 1964 text, Black Religion: The Negro and Christianity in the United States, have I encountered such a misreading of the Black religious experience. There are five critical points in this conversation as I understand it: First, as a scholar…