By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews We arrive now at the fourth and most forward-looking movement of this series — the place where I must bring Dr. Edwin Nichols’ philosophical legacy into direct conversation with the frameworks I have been…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual betrayal that happens when powerful ideas are left in the academy, circulating only among scholars who already agree with them, never touching the institutions that most need…
By: Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews There is a particular kind of intellectual formation that happens when a Black man of extraordinary capacity is forced to navigate institutions that were not built with his humanity in mind — and comes…
By Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews Series Introduction: Reading the World Through African Eyes I want to begin this series with a question that I have carried with me across decades of scholarship, ministry, and clinical healing work: Why do…
