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...Eugene F. Rivers III, pastor of Boston's Azusa Christian Community church, is my kind of preacher: a former gang member with a Harvard education who has devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later...
JOHN FLORES (R) District 31 (East Los Angeles County; El Monte; Alhambra; Azusa...
...hour of small group discussion followed the address by Rivers, who teaches a course at the Divinity School and is pastor at the Azusa Community Christian church at Four Corners, Dorchester...
...addition to lecturing at Harvard Divinity School, Rivers is pastor of the Azusa Chrisian Community in Dorchester...
Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester, opened by calling for a discussion of how Black intellectuals can move beyond "distant exhortation and example" to work for social change...