Obbie Tyler Todd is Teaching Pastor and Theologian in Residence at Cross Community Church in Beaufort, South Carolina, and adjunct professor of church history at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Beechers (LSU Press, 2024) and is currently under contract to write a religious biography of John D. Rockefeller with Oxford University Press.
A new biography of famed abolitionist Charles Sumner highlights his constitutional legacy and connections to the Black community, two factors of his life too long overlooked
Obbie Tyler ToddJuly 16, 2025