Ross Kane
Professor, Pastor, and Author
About
Ross Kane is a pastor and professor who writes and teaches about the complex intersections between theology, ethics, and culture. He helps pastors and students discern cultural dynamics at play in their ministries and how these dynamics shape moral decision-making. His writing ranges from local church politics to international church relationships, especially between churches in the United States and Africa.
He holds a PhD in ethics from the University of Virginia and teaches at Virginia Theological Seminary, where he also directs their doctoral programs. He is author of The Good News of Church Politics (Eerdmans) and Syncretism and Christian Tradition (Oxford), as well as many articles in popular and academic journals.
Recent Posts
Loving Neighbors as Politics
“Kwame Bediako’s Christianity without Domination”
This article was originally published in The Century Christian on March 23, 2023. The Ghanaian theologian offered new methodological approaches in the…
“New Directions in African Political Theologies”
This review was originally published in The Political Theology Network on October 8, 2021. Contemporary African political theologies are a study in contrasts….
“How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult”
This article was originally published in The Christian Century on June 16, 2021. Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about…
“The emergence of belief—and unbelief”
This review was originally published in The Christian Century on May 22, 2019. Ethan Shagan chronicles the expansion of these concepts since…
“The wisdom of the African Christian practice of reverencing the dead”
This article was originally published in The Christian Century on April 11, 2018. What would the global church look like if we…