Book Reflection: James by Percival Everett – My Homily on Faith, Suffering, and The Enduring Hope of My People
by Rev. Dr. Kevin A. Slayton, Sr. Percival Everett’s James is more than a novel; it is [...]
Afro American Newspaper shares Book Club Story
This story was a Special Report in the Afro on June 24, 2024.
Book Review: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Story by James McBride
"Though they never would birth any children of their own, still Moshe and Chona were pillars of their community."
Not Y’als Book Review – The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
"America has perfected segregation"
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book Review: Getting Involved with God
The question remains what will happen when the music stops, and it will?
Book Review: Alone Together
One of the most familiar idiom’s used in popular U.S. culture has been the saying, [...]
Reconciliation and Reparation: Preaching Economic Justice
Effective twenty-first-century preaching is prophetic when it addresses closing the income and wealth gap. In [...]
The Practice of Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
The necessary context of prophetic preaching, Walter Brueggemann argues, is "a contestation between narratives." The [...]
Be My Witness by Marvin A. McMickle
Best-selling author, veteran pastor and professor, and now president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, [...]