“We have a lot of spirit in our churches. I’m not just sure whose spirit it is. Maybe that’s why thinking is so low in our churches. You see, I think the Black church is very good at producing people who can proclaim, who can preach, who can really entertain, and we have done that well. . . but what we have not done, we have not really helped our people to know what the Gospel is . . . With all the problems going on in the world, we need a thinking church.” — James H. Cone, A Lecture “The State of the Black Church,” 2003
