DARRYL TRIMIEW is the chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Previously, he was dean of the black church studies program at Crozer/Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and president of the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Trimiew is the author of God Bless the Child That’s Got Its Own: The Economic Rights Debate (1997) and Voices of the Silenced: The Responsible Self in a Marginalized Community (1993).