QUOTE : Without hope, solely on my counselor’s advice, I began to pray. I prayed to the Gods of my childhood. To Adonai and to Jesus. And slowly they drew me up, out of the abyss and into the world again. “I still pray. Over the years, my conception of God has grown increasingly abstract and depersonalized, so that today, in prayer, I open myself to life itself, to the ongoing creation of which we are all a part. “I would describe my present theology as constructive Black humanism seasoned with process, liberation, and eco-environmentalist thought.