LARRY TERRELL CRUDUP, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Larry Terrell Crudup serves as the Senior Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church of Oklahoma City. Larry received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Religion and The Arts with a minor in Secondary Education from Belmont University, Nashville, TN in May 2010. He is also a graduate of Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX where he earned a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree. He also holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Interdisciplinary Studies with a major in Ethical and Creative Leadership from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, OH.
Publications & Presentations
PRESENTATIONS
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Seeing Ourselves in Holy Texts: Black Identity Formation in The February, 2017
Christian Faith
Presenter at the Austin Travis County Integral Care’s Central Texas
African American Family Services Conference, Austin, TX
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Examining the Relationship Between the Black Social Gospel and January, 2017
the Black Lives Matter Movements
Co-Presenter at Union Institute & University Conference Day
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Ricoeurian Ethics: Recapturing Communal Personhood November, 2016
Global Leadership Conference, November 2nd - 5th, 2016
International Leadership Conference
Presentation
MY LATEST RESEARCH
How We Think Narratively Pt.1
As a researcher I am interested in the identity formation of communities for social transformation. Particularly I am interested in the Black church’s identity formation for social transformation. How do we, the church, live up to and live out our obligation to step into the world with a transforming mission?
Coming Into My Own!
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
~1 John 3:2