​In this virtual talk on Let the Oppressed Go Free, Dr. McMickle’s 18th book project, the author will consider the influence of various liberation theologies in social, cultural, and political history.  Among other topics, Let the Oppressed Go Free focuses on Black Theology, Feminist Theology, and Womanist Theology in America.

Speaker Bio

Marvin A. McMickle, DMin, PhD is currently interim pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where he previously served as senior pastor for nearly twenty-five years. He has also served as past president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. No stranger to academia, McMickle previously served as professor of homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary and in 2009, spent a semester as a visiting professor at Yale University Divinity School. He also taught at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, Princeton, and Fordham universities.

A prolific author, McMickle has more than a dozen books to his credit, including resources on preaching, ministry, and African American history.