Episode 7 explores how James Weldon Johnson's poem “The Creation” retells the Genesis creation story, shifting the dominant Christian interpretation of the story by focusing on original goodness rather than original sin. Weldon Johnson’s poem highlights the presence of Blackness in creation, celebrating the goodness and glory of Black bodies, Black culture, and a Black God.

Episode 7 explores how James Weldon Johnson's poem “The Creation” retells the Genesis creation story, shifting the dominant Christian interpretation of the story by focusing on original goodness rather than original sin. Weldon Johnson’s poem highlights the presence of Blackness in creation, celebrating the goodness and glory of Black bodies, Black culture, and a Black God.

Episode 7 explores how James Weldon Johnson's poem “The Creation” retells the Genesis creation story, shifting the dominant Christian interpretation of the story by focusing on original goodness rather than original sin. Weldon Johnson’s poem highlights the presence of Blackness in creation, celebrating the goodness and glory of Black bodies, Black culture, and a Black God.&nbsp;

Episode 7: James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation"

Professor Jeanne Petrolle discusses literature that uses Bible references to explore ideas that matter to twenty-first century readers.The Bible and Modern Literature podcast focuses on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century writers like Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Shelley, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Sherman Alexie, Avraham Yehoshua, and others. By visiting Genesis, Exodus, the Book of Joshua, the Book of Isaiah, the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation, readers enhance their understanding of major modern writers.

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Episode 7: James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation"

Episode 7: James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation"