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Living in the 21st century, learning to pray, praying and remaining prayerful are not luxuries for the elite, but a survival measure in today’s society. For this reason, young people must be challenged to learn the importance and the necessity of prayer and spiritual readings. However, it has been noted and reported by many church leaders that children and youth are reluctant to pray in public, are not always receptive to prayers, nor do they clearly understand the components of prayers. Learning to pray and the defi nition of prayers are not always comprehended as means of communicating or talking to God. The Bible teaches that in order to pray sincerely, spiritually and effectively, one ...
In The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson, Jared Alcántara offers a definitive biography of one of the most controversial, complex--and, eventually, forgotten--luminaries of the twentieth century. Alcántara chronicles Jackson's rise to power as pastor of the largest Black church in the United States, the 15,000-member Olivet Baptist in Chicago, and as the longest-tenured president of the six-million-member National Baptist Convention, at one time the nation's largest Black organization. Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier contended that holding an office like this was akin to being the president of a "nation within a nation," the president of Black America. Nicknamed the "Negro Pope" along with "S...
The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.
The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.
This work addresses how the Progressive National Baptist Convention has historically confronted, and presently addresses issues of race, class and gender in a rapidly changing, highly technological and newly global capitalist world.
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Prophets have decisively shaped our politics, but we lack a good explanation of how they do so. This book offers a new theory of prophetic politics illustrated by the dramatic lives of the Hebrew prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Joan of Arc, Thomas More, and Martin Luther King.
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"TELL ME ABOUT THE BIBLE" "This book makes the Holy Bible come alive for those who want to quickly appreciate the forest, but often get lost in the trees" - Cain Hope Felder, Ph.D. Howard University School of Divinity Professor of New Testament, and Chairman, Biblical Institute for Social Change, Inc. Washington, D.C. "Tell Me About The Bible is a foretaste of the rich soul food of the Bible and is sure to stimulate one to go further reading and studying" - Dr. Gene Rice Professor of Old Testament Howard University School of Divinity Washington, D. C. "... a ray of hope to all of us who seek a simpler approach to Biblical teaching" - Anthony G. Maclin, Senior Pastor The Sanctuary at Kingdom ...