In this thought-provoking episode, our guest, Will Coleman, shares how hoodoo is his religion of origin, his interests in African retentions in African American culture, and why he considers his spiritual practice to be expansive rather than eclectic.

Highlights:

• How hoodoo underlies Will Coleman’s rearing in Black Christianity
• How years of learning led to a year of initiations
• How tarot cards led him to “ancestral intelligence”
• Will’s connection between memory and being engaged in movements for liberation

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Henry Louis Gates Jr., Signifying Monkey: a Theory of African American Literary Criticism: https://amzn.to/42Ameig
• Michael Beckwith: https://www.michaelbeckwith.com/
• Presbyterian Church USA: https://pcusa.org/
• Where'd He Get That?: A Biblical Cross-Reference to Ernest Holmes' the Science of Mind by Margo Ruark: https://amzn.to/4n2CrEq
• Rosicrucianism/ Fraternity of the Rosy Cross: https://www.rosicrucian.org/
• Oba Adebolu Fatunmise: https://youtu.be/W_ohdHEhNbs?si=t8rrZyRhqLW0jU2v

Books by Will Coleman:

Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of “Telling the Story”: https://amzn.to/47lxxNW

African Traditional Religions Textbook: Ifa (open source): https://research.auctr.edu/Ifa

Guest Information:

Will Coleman, Ph.D. is a theologian and teacher of Biblical spirituality. He was born and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in religion at Rhodes College in Memphis, he moved to Decatur, Georgia in order to attend Columbia Theological Seminary where he received his Master of Divinity degree, with a focus in theology. A few years later, he went on to receive the Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His areas of concentration were in philosophical and systematic theology, philosophy of religion and interpretation theory. He is Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions Emeritus from the Interdenominational Theological Center; The Holmes Institute; and The Johnnie Colman Theological Seminary. He is an honorably retired minster of the presbyterian church (U.S.A.). He teaches and tutors individuals and groups in a variety of contexts in the areas of theology and Biblical spirituality, which interprets the Bible as a guide for transformation of consciousness in the original sounds, symbols and languages of the Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts than in English translations

wcolemanphd33 at gmail dot com

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