Claude Atcho’s Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just was published this year by Brazos Press. Claude is a teacher and the pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Charlottesville, VA. Each chapter of his book takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Richard Wright’s Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain.
