The Cross and the Lynching Tree: Ep. 4: The Re-Crucified Christ: Lynching, Literature, and the Cross

Host Connie Morris continues the Unequal by Design series with James H. Cone's Chapter 4 (parts 1 & 2) of The Cross and the Lynching Tree, examining the idea of the "re-crucified Christ" and how Black writers turned literature into witness.

Cone shows that lynching functions as a re-crucifixion whenever innocent people are brutalized, and that Black literary imagination served as prophecy, testimony, and resistance—preserving truth, grief, and dignity against national forgetting and the silence of white Christianity.

The episode challenges listeners to see writing as a form of survival and protest, to confront what they've been trained to ignore, and to speak one truth aloud this week. It closes with reflection, prayer, and a prompt to continue the conversation in chapter five.

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