This made me interested in learning more about Cornel West.

"West never committed fully to the Black Panthers' view of the world. 'I could never join, because of my Christian faith,' he says. 'You had to be an atheist. My whole life as a person on the left, I've been saying, "I'm with you, but I'm never fully with you, because I'm a Christian." He believes in Marx's radical critique of capital and empire but believes just as strongly in God. To West, Marxism without what he calls 'the love ethic' is inhumane, just as Christianity without systemic economic and political analysis is incomplete."

-----Jeff Sharlet, from an article on Cornel West in Rolling Stone Issue 1079.