This book employs the biblical text and African tradition to draw on the idea of the search for wisdom as a potent way to help African Americans in their pursuit of genuine Christian discipleship.

This book examines the church's vital role in the lives of African American elders and the critical need to prepare church leaders to respond effectively.

This book is a toolbox of children's sermons that present special ways to include children in our Sunday worship and to build their faith.

Informed by the experiences of 772 Black churches, this book relies on a multidisciplinary, mixed-methodological lens to examine how today’s Black churches address the religious and non-religious educational and broader socialization ...

Unprecedentedly holistic in its treatment, Liberation and Human Wholeness provides a fascinating look at religio-mystic human liberation from the perspective of a uniquely Afro-American coming to Christ.

The resource is divided into three sections that focus on the black worshiping congregation: - Nurture for Belief Formation - Nurture through the Events of Baptism and Holy Communion - Nurture through Pathways of Preaching, Music Making, ...

The Church Family Sings is an invitation to church school teachers and leaders to explore creative uses of music in the church school.

In Soul Stories: African American Christian Education she applies it specifically to the life experiences, history, and evolving liberation of African American Christians who are encouraged to see the connection between biblical stories, ...

Raising hope cannot happen without guidance of what may be called agents of hope.