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The Challenge of Historically Black Institutions in Light of the Task of Theological Education, 2010
Full text linkWhen I was teaching at Hampton University, Tony Brown made a profound statement several years ago at a Founders’ Day event. He said that one of the central keys to success is that one must learn to become necessary. He was using the standard, logical context of a condition being necessary as opposed to a condition being sufficient. Historically, Black Colleges and Universities must remain a necessary condition to the antecedent of African American success in particular and to American and global success in general. Drawing an analogical similarity to the Historically Black Theological Schools, I contend that in order for Historically Black Theological Schools to become successful and survive, they must become a necessary condition to the antecedent of the success of the African American Church in particular and to the Church Universal in general
A Diary of the Generations: A Tale of Resilience, of Isolation and Community, of Love.
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Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter
No full textJITC is a journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. It publishes peer-reviewed research articles written primarily, but not exclusively, from an Afro centric perspective of the Bible and related disciplines. All contributions are referred to recognized scholars who are specialized in the particular discipline in which the article is written
Towards Botho/Ubuntu-Centred Individuals, Communities and Nations, Musa W. Dube
Full text link“Botho (Ubuntu)… must permeate every aspect of our lives, like the air we breathe” (Vision 2016: 2) “Botho (Ubuntu) will be the cornerstone that guides our lives in the future” (Vision 2036
Refusing to Read: Precious Ramotswe Meets Rahab for a Cup of Bush Tea, 2016
Full text linkIn this article, the biblical Rahab and I ؛ill pay a visit to Precious Rawiotswe or a cup of red bush tea. That is, the narrative of Rahab will provide a reading grid by which to analyse a Botswanan woman character. Precious Ramotswe, created and popularized by Alexander McCall Smiths’ nod. The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. This postcolonial feminist reading of the nods analyses the characterization of Mma Ramotswe through Rahab’s context, highlighting how McCall Smith’s narrator serves as a spy who investigates, reports, and translates Botswanan cultures for the Western world by using her as his mouth piece. The article explores how McCall Smith constructs colonialising feminism through the paradigm of saving brown women from brown men. The article highlights that such a strategy depends on a colonial portrait of black men as docile and over-sexed. While The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has won worldwide popularity, this article highlights its dependence on colonially-cultivated tastes of constructing Africa as the Other and a readership that still yearns for such literature in the Western world. McCall Smith thus indulges in colonial images, metaphors, and narrative designs of the Other and through them sates the reading appetites of millions in the Western world
A Mandate for Action: The Church’s Ministry With Urban Black Youth, 2014
No full textBlack youth in urban America experience difficult challenges and multiple stressors in a continuing climate of racism, reduce life options, and hopelessness that threaten their optimal development. The article claims that, like the historical Black church, current congregations have an inescapable responsibility to provide ministries with and on behalf of these youth to assure their hope-bearing, life-giving present and future. Building on results of the 2009-2011Vision Quest study of youth ministry leadership in Black congregations and endeavors of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy at Interdenominational Theological Center, the article presents detailed descriptions of three dominant priorities, called the three C’s of urban youth ministry, for congregations and youth ministry leaders to undertake
Exploring Spiritual Formation in the Classroom, 2014
Full text linkIt used to be assumed that persons went to seminary because God had called them and had called them with the Holy Spirit to do God’s work. Dr. Michael Dash’s article shows that this is not so and he attests this by pointing out that many theological scholars have written about the need for a person to have a sense of commitment in some form of spirituality in order to be of service to God’s people. Being spiritual is not a one-time accomplishment; it is a continuous growth and development toward an engagement with God.