Reggie Williams ’95 is a Black social ethicist and ordained reverend at a Black church who studies how faith shapes human social conduct. In particular, he has explored the influence of the Black church on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian and author executed for his opposition to the Nazi regime. Reggie’s book, “Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance” (Baylor University Press, 2014), traces the influence of the Harlem Renaissance and Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church on Bonhoeffer, who spent a year doing post-doctoral work at Union Seminary in New York, 1930-31. 1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...