The Rev. Terry J. Stokes is an anarchist theologian who seeks to foster political and spiritual radicalization through his writing and speaking. He/they.
He holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of word and sacrament by Park Avenue Baptist Church, an abolitionist congregation on Mvskoke Land (Atlanta, GA).
He lives on Munsee Lenape land (central NJ), where he works with children and youth as a nonprofit director.
Their new book, Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People, is available now.
An audio version is available on Spotify, Nook, and many other audio outlets.
Conversations and press on Jesus and the Abolitionists:
This is a book, at once, of love and radicality. Stokes offers a unique voice into the ways Christianity and the teachings of Jesus necessitate an anarchist worldview. There is a forthright demand, via a Christian ethic of love, to renounce the violence and domination of the state, while simultaneously creating something more loving, more caring. Indeed, I felt loved reading this book, reading of Stokes’ life, of the beautifully necessary entanglement of Christianity and anarchism. And in that love, I felt radicalized. And you will too. I promise.
—Marquis Bey, professor at Northwestern University and author of Anarcho-Blackness
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