Protected: Exploring and Restoring the Wounds of Immigrants in the Korean Church in America Through Moses
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Category: Biblical Interpretation and Proclamation
Sisters in the Pews: Addressing Mental Health in Black Women
Introduction… The Covid-19 pandemic, social and political dissension, and racial discord have contributed to America’s greatest mental health crisis. This mental health challenge is even more significant in African American Continue Reading
The Youth Minister that Saved My Grandfather’s Life
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Bobby and his friends wandered down the railroad tracks, looking to hop covertly on a slow-moving train heading across town. The band of misfits typically occupied their Continue Reading
Living Your Faith As An Innovation To End Addiction
Everyone who saw Kevin Harrod always greeted him the same way: “I can’t believe you’re still alive”. The surprise of his friends was understandable. Throughout his twenty years of addiction Continue Reading
Imagineer Preaching – Reviving Narrative Preaching in the Post-Modern Black Church
THE PROBLEM Preaching in the Black Church[1] has to be spiritual, hope-filled, creative, immersive, transformative, sustaining, liberating, comforting and defiant. In its best form it is comprised of four elements: Continue Reading
Protected: If These Pews Could Talk: Pedagogy and Proclamation
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Pour Out Your Holy Spirit: Transformation through the Font and the Table
Tensions were palpable. Everyone was moving quickly, and arena security was visibly on alert. The concourse was loud as some three thousand people made their way out of the Saint Continue Reading
Trauma in Black Men and the Black Church: Embracing a Humanocentric Theism
Ministry Context My research analyzes our church’s congregational context using data within a three-mile radius of our Riverdale, Georgia location. Comparing findings from 2012 to the present reveals notable demographic Continue Reading
Deconstructing Patriarchy, Reconstructing Faith
Patriarchy is one of those systems of oppression hiding in plain sight– especially in the Church. Over the course of history, the Church has used the Holy Scriptures to defend Continue Reading
These Ancient Words: Preaching so the Bible Can Speak
The Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the governing document of our denomination, begins with a Preamble that also serves as an affirmation of faith. It reads, in Continue Reading