ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses the spiritual component undergirding how his engage in transformative work as a Black male English educator. Drawing upon the metaphor of the Christian celebration of Easter experience to illuminate how one has to die to be born again when teaching for liberation, his demonstrates how his spiritual literacies are grounded in Black/African American religious traditions and within familial and communal knowledge. The Black language scholar, Geneva Smitherman, reminds that the way Black people worship is grounded in Africanized ideologies and practices. Black liberation speaks to and against the political injustices of racism, sexism, and classism. The Black church played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The literature from before revealed a pivotal need for English education and English teacher educators to explore the intersections of race, religion, Blackness, spirituality, and Christianity.
