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Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Back Matter, 2022
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African American Pentecostalism and the Public Square, 2017
Get PDFIn the United States, a commonly held assumption is that the Constitutional separation of church and state necessitates a separation also ofreligion and politics, justifies a secular state, and commends reason as the "neutral” language of the secular state as well as the public square itself. Against this assumption, this article argues that, in our pluralist society, if our moral and religious convictions unavoidably influence our interactions with one another, then African American Pentecostalism, as a distinct expression of belief, morality, and thought, has a place in the public square. The article not only extols African American Pentecostalism ’s qualities that contribute to social and political improvement, but also points out its aspects that are irrelevant to, obstructive, or impractical in the public square. Still, Pentecostalism ’s witness of encounter with the Transcendent (God) establishes a locus of value for challenging the secular state ’s judgements about matters having moral and religious undercurrents
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 2014
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Vision for the Journey New Ministers for Renewed Congregations, 2010
Get PDFIn 1996, the film Jerry Maguire was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture. The film starred Tom Cruise, a handsome, popular Hollywood star who in the title role played a sports agent in the midst of emotional breakdown. Jerry Maguire, locked in his apartment, turns on his laptop computer in an effortto seek relief and redemption. He set out to write a one-paragraph mission statement for his life, hoping that it will serve as a compass for the journey ahead. When he stops writing he has a twenty-five page statement, outlining the necessity of instituting more humane practices and values into the corporate culture. He feels relieved after sending a copy to all of his colleagues, but is soon fired for pushing against the corporate grain. He finds spiritual fulfillment in a simpler life marked by honesty, commitment, sacrifice, and service. When a Holly Wood superstar like Tom Cruise has a spiritual crisis on the big screen and touches millions of viewers, something significant is happening in our culture
Historical Data on Black-Church Involvement in Public Policy, 2007
Get PDFSince the area of Black religion, of which Black churches are a major part, has emerged historically as the strongest institutional sector of Black communities, it is only natural that it became a part of the political process, producing public policies that affected the laws of the country. Historically, public policy advocacy has been carried by Black clergy, church-related lay leaders, politicians supported by churches, and by Black ecumenical church organizations and by Black and white ecumenical organizations
Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Front Matter, 2006
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Spirituality, Health, and Happiness In Ministry: How Neuroscientific Data Confirm This Will Only Happen With Commitment And Cross-Bearing, 2006
Get PDFThese are not easy times to be pastors! Respect for the office has been in marked decline for the past decades. This is evidenced by hard data provided by the Southern Baptist Convention earlier in this decade. Over 760 pastors were reportedly fired in 2000, a figure which was merely part of a fifteen-year pattern in the Convention. David Goetz in his article, “Forced Out,” indicates that nearly one-fourth of all clergy from various denominations surveyed had been fired at least once! Kevin Leicht, director of The Institute for Inequality Studies, The University of Iowa, concludes that the ministers’ firing rate is higher than the national labor force, higher than even the rate of dismissal among football coaches in the NFL
Fighting the Matrix: Toward A Womanist Pedagogy For The Black Church, 2004
Get PDFIn The Matrix motion picture trilogy, the “matrix” represents a world where we—all humanity—are controlled completely by an outside force composed of machines. Our entire existence and daily function in the world is con-trived. The matrix, or reality as we know it, is actually a computer designed, manufactured world, created to keep us in a docile state—free of resistance, ready to be drained. Outside of this computer world, our bodies are used as batteries—a power source for the beings controlling us. We are completely dehumanized—seen as inferior life forms available for exploitation. The beauty of our humanity in all of its various manifestations is overlooked. We are oppressed because of who and what we are. We serve as involuntary subjects of asystemic domination that exists at multiple levels
Womanist Jesus and the Mutual Struggle for Liberation And On Containing God (Matthew 17:1-5 With Special Emphasis On Matthew 17:4), 2003
Get PDFThe movements that made the men, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, (who, in fact, remade The Black Power and Civil Rights Movements), were the contexts in which we find the emergence of the theological/religious discipline of: Black Theology. This represented the empowerment ofAfrican-American peoples in the arena of theology/religion. Black theologians, utilizing the Black Power/Civil Rights Movements as one of the sources for doing theology, and interpreting religion, began challenging many of the assumptions and presuppositions of people of the dominant culture as they forged ahead towards constructive Black religious thought or Black theology
Pastoral Counseling With African-American Women: A Conceptual Model, 2003
Get PDFConstructing a contextual model of pastoral counseling with African-American women, the writer describes, interprets, and evaluates use of the practical correlation method. This technique is the interdisciplinary conversation between Womanist pastoral counseling, the Iillichian concept ofgrace, and the Kohutian concept of empathy. The processes by which some African-American women clients restructure meaning need to be defined by an approach responding to the various dimensions of the self I his concept refers to the clients reflective awareness in the pastoral counseling context and is the center of the meaning making activity of interpretation and appropriation