OMG, James Cone?!

The Washington Times is shocked--SHOCKED--to learn that black liberation theology played a role in the founding of Trinity UCC. Liberation theology--that's just a bunch of Marxist crap, right? And black--that means angry and scary, right?

It's almost as if a couple decades of covering religion as if the conservative evangelical movement was the long and short of U.S. Protestantism has made everyone forget about, you know, major strains of religious thought that have long called for casting off oppression. Or, for that matter, the psalms...