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Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 2015, no. 1
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Inverting the Pyramid: Exploring Where We Have Been and Where We Are Now Regarding Problems of Violence, Racism, and Xenophobia in the Lives of Women
Get PDFReviewing the history of this past year’s celebration of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Ecumenical Decade in Solidarity with Women is an assertion of where we have been and of where we are presently, at least on some level, regarding issues related to the lives of women. 1998 marks fifty years of WCC attention to women’s concerns, since in 1948 the very first WCC assembly “received a report on ‘The Life and Work of Women in the Church’... .Each succeeding WCC Assembly has made specific reference to women’s participation and called for special focus on [women’s] concerns and struggles in church and society.
Identity Formation/Change in African-American Women
Get PDFAn area of particular interest to the writer and one in which Thomas Pugh gave considerable contemplation is the process(es) of identity formation/change in African Americans and more particularly in African-American women. My recent Th.D. dissertation explores and analyzes the relationship of narrative/story shared within a group context, revelation, and identity formation/change in a sampled population of African-American women. A condensed portion of this dissertation is presented, providing the reader a limited vicarious exposure to many of the conversations between Thomas Pugh and myself, as well as my ongoing exploration into identity formation/change in African-American women
Narrative and Personhood: A Paradigm for Hoping
Get PDFNarrative theory in recent years has developed as a significant approach in describing, interpreting, critiquing, and envisioning ways of reordering people’s life experiences. This speculation contains several propositions. First, narrative theory proposes that people live an evolving narrative story. That is, building on Crites understanding of “narrative” or “story,” life experience moves in an ordered fashion within the framework of context, time, and space. Second, narrative theory proposes that people think in narrative form, and that their communicative process is inherently narrative. That is, according to Sarbin, people think, perceive, image, make moral choices and engage in discourse according to narrative structures. Third, narrative theory proposes that people have the capacity to reflect their lived narrative. The works of Capps and Lester suggest that this discernment enables people’s seeing alternative directions in lived stories and re-framing stories according to their convictions and values. Fourth, people also participate in constructing and revising their stories throughout their lives
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 1992
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Exploring Spiritual Formation In The Classroom
Get PDFThere is increasing and renewed discussion about spirituality and spiritual formation in Christian circles today. There is no one uniform definition of terms, nor of practice that makes for growth and development. There is, however, a general sense that some engagement in the pursuit of spiritual formation and the strengthening of one’s experiences with God will benefit both the person and that person’s life in the community of faith and in the community of the world. Most of all, it will creatively address what is being perceived as a deep hungering for God and the way of life in the Spirit
John Brown and the Struggle for Freedom: The Cost of Liberation and the Burden of Historical Memory
Get PDFThe 1990s have thus far not attested to a lessening of the pervasive reality of the racism that seems so much a part of American life. Charles Long persuasively argues that dominant people use a cultural language, be it theological, political, or socioeconomic, which is a language of “conquest and suppression.” The very terms that White Americans use to describe themselves render “invisible oppressed people” while preventing those who are more free from “seeing themselves as they really are.” Christians too often share in this process by accepting definitions of social reality that obscure rather than expose the nation’s longest and deepest injustice. Racism remains the American, and Christian dilemma
Slain In The Spirit: Black Americans And The Holy Spirit
Get PDFWhen beginning to think about how I wanted to approach the understanding of the Holy Spirit from the perspective of African Americans, the words of an old slave spiritual began to run through my mind. Over and over again, I heard words that spelled out the faith of a people in the process of creation, emerging from a past, hidden and forbidden to them, in Africa, and looking ahead to a new beginning in a strange land overshadowed by the knowledge that they were welcome only for the quality of their labor rather than the value of their lives
The Leadership Crisis In The Black Church: The Search For The Right Pastor
Get PDFSince the emergence of the Black Church out of slavery in this country the black preacher has been viewed as the unchallenged leader of the Black Church and the Black community. In these modern times, however, the leadership role of the Black pastor is coming under tremendous scrutiny and condemnation. The challenge, in some cases, is emerging from within the Black Church itself. The Black pastor is no longer the only authority, or source of leadership in the Black community. Blacks today are seeking advice from their lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, financial consultants, and other professionals. The preacher no longer has the final say in all matter concerning the church and the community. The Black preacher of today must take God’s vision for the Church to the church officers for their approval, and those who hold these offices may be better educated than the pastor. The Black pastor of today, therefore, is finding that he or she is being challenged as never before
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 1991
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