Articles by Reginald Brantley
Reginald Brantley is an ordained minister of the Gospel in the United Church of Christ (UCC) and currently serves as Designated Pastor of the Corona Congregational Church, UCC, in Queens, New York. Rev. Brantley also currently serves as President of the New York Metropolitan Association, New York Conference of the United Church of Christ, a group of more than 50 UCC churches ministering the grace of God in the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the New York City metropolitan region. He is a retired Administrative Law Judge with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Rev. Brantley received the Master of Divinity degree from the New York Theological Seminary (NYTS) in May 2012 and has served for several years as a Teaching Assistant at NYTS for several Bible courses and as an Adjunct Teacher in NYTS’ Certificate Program in Christian Ministry. He has been a contributor to The Living Pulpit.
by Reginald Brantley
by Reginald Brantley
If we believe that God’s heart is a dwelling place for justice and grace big enough for us who were once estranged from God, then surely we know our expression of God must include making our hearts dwelling places of justice and grace for those whom we would call strangers.
by Reginald Brantley
One of the great ironies of Christian history in America is that slave masters taught their black slaves a racialist form of Christianity, hoping to keep them docile, but instead the story of the Exodus taught them that the God who rescued the Hebrew slaves and brought them out of Egypt was their God of liberation. Men like Demark Vesey and Nat Turner preached a liberation theology that rescued America from its baser self.
