Esau McCaulley is an assistant professor of the New Testament at Wheaton College, where his research and writing focus on Pauline theology and the intersection of race, Christian identity, and the pursuit of justice, and theologian in residence at Progressive Baptist Church, a historically black congregation in Chicago. McCaulley is the author of Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance and Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, which was Christianity Today’s 2020 book of the year. His latest is Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit, a children’s book. A contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, McCaulley’s writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Christianity Today.
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