Delman L. Coates (born January 13, 1973) is an American Christian minister. He is senior pastor of

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, a

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located in

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, since 2004. Coates is founder of the Our Money Campaign, an economic justice campaign launched in May 2019. He is founder of the Black Church Center for Justice & Equality. Coates is a board member of the National Action Network.

Early life and education

Coates was born on January 13, 1973, in Richmond, Virginia. He has one sister. Coates obtained his B.A. in Religion in 1995 from Morehouse College and his Master of Divinity from

Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...

in 1998. He also attended

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, receiving his Master of Philosophy in Religion in 2002 and his Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity in 2006).

Ministry

In 2004, he became senior pastor of

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Politics

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member

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named Coates as her running mate in the 2014 race for governor.

Published articles

*"And the Bible Says: Methodological Tyranny of Biblical Fundamentalism and Historical Criticism" in Blow the Trumpet in Zion (2004) * "Towards a Progressive Christian Interpretive Praxis" in The African-American Pulpit (2004) * "Origen of Alexandria" in Union Seminary Quarterly Review (vol. 59:3-4, 2005) Coates wrote an essay titled “The New Abolitionism: Monetary Reform and the Future of Civil Rights” which appears in the book ''Mr. President: Interfaith Perspectives on the Historic Presidency of Barack H. Obama'' (2017).

References

External links

Mt. Ennon Baptist Church
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