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Blythe, S. (2015). Open-air preaching as radical street performance: Journal Of European
Baptist Studies, 16(1), 5-26.
This article discusses open-air preaching and its significance in history. The article describes open-air preaching as being antiquated and akin to a preacher putting on a performance. Open-air preaching and performance are fully explained as existing from the early church to present day, and beyond the confines of what is termed traditional preaching.
The article describes the author at the time of this writing (2009), had his primary focus towards his PhD, thesis, at the University of Edinburgh.
This article raises awareness of the historic value of open-air preaching, being seen as radical, in no way limits it to being a method utilized by such as Jesus Christ, Paul the Apostle, and in modern times Rev. Billy Graham. It is a great article for those that aspire to enter the ministry at the grassroots level and beyond.
Lincoln, C. E., & Mamiya, L. H., (1990). The black church in the African American experience. Durham: Duke University Press Books.
This study keys in on the plight of African American churches with startling statements of their experiences in contrast to other cultures. The study expounds on all of the issues that have meaning such as
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It focus is on the discrepancies of the policies and how they are put into practice in the culture of American change over the past decades. The article tears the age of innocence into two arguments. One argument to validate a sense of innocence, and another to collectively reaffirm that innocence by applying punishment as it sees fit. The study of how innocence is carved away from its ideology of right wrong based upon a self-inflicted history is not overlooked. The topic of incarceration having evolved into the big business of mass-incarceration is thoroughly
Preaching to a Post-everything World offers several contributions to the art of preaching. New ideas and concepts facilitate sermon design and construction; while at the same time a fresh perspective was given to old ideas and concepts. Eswine’s work added to the discussion of expository Christ-centered preaching as well.
In the middle of her struggle, Moody offers insights and correctives to some common interpretations of down south black involvement. They believed that since the black churches were focal points of the community’s beliefs and social groups that they were also in the front position during the first occurrence of racial discrimination. Although, for Moody’s experience, this was not true, well at least in Centreville and the rest of Wilkinson
Historically in the African American community the church has been a one stop shop: a welcoming spot for newcomers, a refuge for the needy, and a source of guidance for
Finally, she writes about the role “religion and the black church” played in the lives of the black community. This historian explains the significance DuBois’s book had during that time on social problems that many blacks faced. She also wrote about how different things such as church and education played an important role in the lives of
The rise of African American churches played a vital role in advancing the Civil War because it brought the issue of morality into the slavery debate. Created in protest, the Black church, prior to the Civil War represented the first occasion of Black rebellion among the secret churches of the slave community, and in the liberated Black churches in the North. Black congregations nurtured a sense of hope and self-expression, laying the basis of Black power and freedom. They understood that the “…Christian Gospel was a gospel of liberation … and … refused to accept an interpretation of Christianity that was unrelated to civil freedom.” (Westley 1). Northern church members Richard Allen and Absalom Jones created the first African American church by walking out of a Methodist Episcopal Church in protest due to the discrimination they had experienced. They started the African Methodist Episcopal
Mid-nineteenth century southern America, the writer asserts the churches in America are failing mankind by not being inclusive rather than exclusive and turning a blind-eye to the topic. Failing to live up to the core tenants of Christianity are things that erode the church and society alike. He also recalls his personal experiences with his grandfather, who was a minister, and his uncle. How his uncle had the job of being the caretaker of
By revealing the opposition and obstacles, the black church may seize the opportunity of becoming a force to be reckoned with in our society. America was born with a grotesque, cancerous disease called slavery. This disease lingers to this day in many forms and subtle variations. The plantation mentality is still with us. Sometimes it masquerades as democracy and free enterprise, but the effect is the same on the spirits of the poor and oppressed. When black men moved indoors to work in industry and business, they found themselves imprisoned behind the walls of institutional racism. Nothing really had
Following these interpretations of the bible, a recurring historical issue, has been the choosing of what should be enforced or prohibited within religion. The Black church along with many others forgives many sins, but does not even glance at the possibilities of recognizing homosexuality as a birthed feeling. In a symposium on "Biblical Sexuality in the Black Church." Joel Bowman, the pastor of Temple of Faith Baptist Church in Louisville, and Curtis Woods, confronts the reality of religious beliefs within the Black church. As founder of African Americans for Biblical Authority, Bowman said that it has been a "passion of mine to communicate very specifically and poignantly about sex and sexuality because I think the church has been woefully negligent in
In Dodd’s view, New Testament preaching was always evangelistic, while teaching involved the doctrinal and ethical matters of Christianity. Preaching was carried on outside the church and teaching was carried on inside. Traditionally, preaching has been carried out in the mood of speech making. The word sermon comes from the Latin
The Black church is a unique in the sense that it was formed to bring people of the same family background together even if they were from different ethnicities to find solace in each other in a time when racial ties were harsher than today. Yet, it excluded those who did not believe in religion. Dr. William Hart from Macalester College argues that many
In the Black church, we know what it is to face injustices and how to overcome them. We must look back on how our forefather and foremothers made it thru, how they found strength to stand and fight and how they concurred. The Moral Monday Movement causes us to reflect on this very thing. What was there power and foundation – Faith and Works! Faith in what you believe about God, but works is what you do
The church has been an important part of the African American community. It has been used as a meeting during slavery and as a place to hide runaway slaves. However, the church and the community it creates isn’t always associated with a specific space. This sense of community and praise can be created anywhere. On Saturday, April 7, 2018, I had the opportunity to see the Black Diamond choir at the University of Louisville in Stricker Hall. The music was composed of three components, the band, the choir and the choir director. The name of the choir director is Jason Clayborn, who is an established songwriter and composer. He also represented a preacher on stage throughout the program. At one point there was a guest director Dexter Walker and
Researchers are interested how the African American women work in America and how this is different from women in their native land. “What happen to our ideas about religion when black women surface as central protagonists in American, Caribbean, or postcolonial African setting? (Women and Religion in the African Diaspora).
The broken ideas of race within the church are a great threat to Christians accomplishing God’s mission for His children. The segregation and institutional racialized thinking of the church throughout history has blinded us to seeing God’s mission in reconciling his children. For this reason, I am applying my model to the church I attend in Perham Minnesota. Crosspoint Alliance Church is a small church in northern Minnesota with little ethnic diversity, and little exposer to the issues of race in the church throughout the country. I would apply my model in teaching sessions held for the elder board, and leaders in my church. My model is set up to give a brief overview of the history of race in the church, as well as the background of race
The content of preaching has been emphasized and studied in Seminaries, but the method for effective preaching has been treated in generalities. Now it is the time to think more specifically about processes which can help the preacher deliver biblical and powerful sermons that transform the lives of the hearers. One such process is that involving human imagination in relation to the exegesis and exposition of biblical texts for preaching.