Damon Richardson
He was raised in the Nation of Islam and came to Christ at sixteen. He can tell you why Ethiopia became a Christian nation before the Council of Nicaea, and why the first Muslim refugees fled to a Christian king who gave them sanctuary.
Damon Richardson. Founder of UrbanLogia Ministries; Bible teacher and urban apologist with more than three decades of ministry experience, having pastored in Brooklyn, Michigan, and Florida. Raised Muslim in the Nation of Islam and converted to Christ at sixteen. MA in Religious Studies and PhD in Leadership, Beulah Heights University, with graduate study at Virginia Union University's Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Regent University School of Divinity, and St. Petersburg Seminary and Yeshiva. Contributor to Urban Apologetics, ed. Eric Mason.
Also anchors session 2.1 of the learning path
Who he is
Damon Richardson was raised Muslim in the Nation of Islam and came to Christ at sixteen. He founded UrbanLogia Ministries, has pastored in Brooklyn, Michigan, and Florida across more than three decades, took an MA in Religious Studies and a PhD in Leadership at Beulah Heights, and studied at Virginia Union's Proctor School, Regent, and St. Petersburg Seminary and Yeshiva. He contributed to Urban Apologetics.
He is the church historian of this archive. Where others give you a name and a century, Richardson gives you the party lists at a council, the year a ship went down, and what a document cost. And because of where he came from, he is the one person here who can compare Christianity and Islam in Africa from the inside of both.
What you are getting in this dossier
The Council of Nicaea reconstructed properly, including the argument that Constantine should have backed Arius if he were manipulating anything. A shipwreck in 316 that made Ethiopia the first Christian nation in the world, before Nicaea even met. Perpetua's own prison diary. Three separate routes by which the faith reached Africa in the first decade. The Kenyan scholar's line that ends the whole argument in one sentence. His comparison of how Christianity and Islam actually arrived in Africa. And the fact that Marcus Garvey professed the Nicene Creed.
The slave Bible proves the reverse
He starts from the object everybody cites and reads it against the grain.
"So for instance, many of them are completely unaware of the slave Bible. If slave masters were so interested in promoting Christianity to slaves, they would not be removing all of the significant narratives in the Bible related to things like the Exodus, things like, again, those liberation themes."
The rest of this dossier is part of Unspoken
2,878 more words and 11 more clips of him making the case, including the three objections he answers and the place he refuses to flatter his own argument.
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