Obery M. Hendricks Jr.

The Reverend
Obery M. Hendricks Jr.
Born
Obery Mack Hendricks Jr.

(1953-04-09) April 9, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic Party
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Methodist)
ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church
Ordained1995
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisA Discourse of Domination[1] (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
School or traditionChristian socialism[2]
Institutions

Obery Mack Hendricks Jr. (born 1953) is a visiting research scholar at Columbia University. Before taking this position he was a professor at Drew University and a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has also served as president of Payne Theological Seminary, the oldest African-American theological institution.[3] He is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.[4]

A former Wall Street investment executive, Hendricks received his PhD from Princeton University. He is currently a spokesperson who has been featured on C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, the Bloomberg network, hip hop stations and more. He has been a featured writer as well as an editor or editorial advisor for multiple publications including the award-winning Tikkun magazine. He is a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Democratic National Committee and an Affiliated Scholar in the "Faith and Public Policy Initiative" at the Center for American Progress.[5]

Hendricks currently lives in New York City.

  1. ^ Hendricks, Obery M. (1995). A Discourse of Domination: A Socio-rhetorical Study of the Use of Ioudaios in the Forth Gospel (PhD thesis). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University. OCLC 36202347.
  2. ^ "Jesus of Nazareth, Revolutionary Socialist: An Interview with Obery Hendricks". 11 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Obery Hendricks" Author. Harper Collins. 8 Feb. 2008.
  4. ^ "Obery Hendricks." The American Program Bureau. 15 Feb. 2008.
  5. ^ "Obery Hendricks." The American Program Bureau. 15 Feb. 2008