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Strategies For a Healthy Youth Ministry, 2014
No full textThis article presents strategies for a healthy youth ministry in the Black church, while reminding us thatevey youth ministry should be purpose-filled and Biblically-intentional in design. This article gives timely and practical advice that is necessary for youth ministry survival
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 2011
No full textJITC is ajournai 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
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 2011
No full textInterdenominational Theological Center An Ecumenical Professional Graduate School of Theolog
Liberation Theologies: A Critical Essay, 2010
No full textWithin the last few years there has arisen a cluster of theological programs with a focus on human liberation. This movement is ecumenical, ethical and universal. It is, however, strongest in the so-called Third World. There is no universal agreement among the advocates concerning method or the particular focus of these theologies; but the formula of liberation from oppression radiates throughout all of them. All are concerned with “human rights” or making life more human, especially for the masses of oppressed people in each case. There is Black Theology, Latin American Theology, German Political Theology, Femininist Theology, African and Asian Theologies. In some cases we are talking about broad categories which must be sub-divided. But these titles provide us with a working list
“Just Come From the Fountain”: The Development of Ethical Leadership From Black Church Traditions, 2007
No full textIn 1984, a Peruvian theologian, Gustavo Gutierrez, wrote a powerful treatise, entitled, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People.' Following the lead of the twelfth-century mystic Bernard of Clairveaux, who commented that the place where our own spiritual nourishment comes is the place where we think, pray, and work, Gutierrez was concerned that spirituality be located within the concrete lived situations of a people.-' In the case of the people of Peru, their wells were located in the struggle for liberation and their reinterpretation of traditions of Catholicism and native Indian cultures. In respect to the argument for ethical leadership, I am also positing that the eventful language of spirituality, ethics, and leadership is best appropriated from where leaders find their own spiritual moorings. It would be hard to imagine Joseph Lowery, Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Teresa without considering how their morally-anchored character, their transforming acts of civility, and their deep throbbing sense of community were related to the traditions of which they were a part. These are leaders who drank from their own fountains and reappropriated its substantive discourse into appropriate actions and strategies for personal and political transformation. These are the kind of leaders referred to as ethical leaders in this essay
Resources for Understanding Policy Development: Differing Perspectives, 2007
Get PDFPublic policies are interrelated plans of action to guide decisions and achieve desired outcomes within a specified timeframe. They can apply to government, private-sector organizations, and individuals. Policy differs from law, merely guiding actions most likely to achieve desired results. One can say that goals are instituted in order to avoid something negative, or to seek some positive benefit
God’s Call and the Requisite Preparation for Performing Various Ministries, 2006
Get PDFSeveral biblical texts relate how God called and commissioned men and women to serve in various ministerial capacities. Scholars have generally viewed divine calls as following a discernible structural form, viz., call narrative. In his article on the call narrative, Norman Habel identified six steps characteristic of a biblical call narrative: (1) Divine confrontation: when the agent of Yahweh or Yahweh makes an initial intervention in the life of the callee. (2) The introductory word: a statement alerting the targeted person that it is Yahweh giving the word. (3) Yahweh’s commission: the callee is assigned a specific task. (4) Objection: The callee expresses an objection to the commission and cites all the strong reasons why the commission should not be accepted. (5) Divine reassurance: Yahweh allays the callee’s fears by giving reassurance. (6) Signs: at this point the callee asks for signs in order to be certain that God is talking and appointing
Comparison of African-American And Immigrant-Mosque Participants, 2005
Get PDFThe American-Muslim community is composed largely of first generation immigrants—mainly from South Asia and Arab lands—and first generation African-American converts. Although this demographic is changing as the second generation of both immigrants and converts slowly come of age, the reality remains that relations between African-American Muslims and immigrant Muslims constitute one of the most decisive dynamics in the American-Muslim community. Works on the African-American Muslim experience have described an uneasy and often contentious relationship between African Americans and immigrants. Peter Skerry, in a recent article observes, “African-American Muslims tend to see the world very differently from their immigrant coreligionists. Relations between African-American and immigrant Muslims are strained at worst, wary at best.
I Know Peace, 2003
No full textChineta S. Goodjoin is a 2004 graduate of Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia, with the M.Div. degree and a concentration in homiletics
Introduction
Get PDFIn the years since the Civil Rights Movement, noteworthy changes and continuity are evident within African-American congregations—the institutions that guided the movement for renewing American democracy. This special edition of the JITC presents the results of an exciting research project conducted early in 2000—ITC/FaithFactor Project 2000 Study of Black Churches. This national scan represents the nation’s most comprehensive and accurate survey of the African American religious experience