God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited by
A reissue of a classic book byWilliam Augustus Jones. The original volume featured essays on urban ministry and sermons on social justice, and this new edition has been updated by the late author's younger daughter and expanded to add several never-before-published sermons from the preaching giant.
King Came Preaching: The Pulpit Power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by
Focuses on MLK as a preacher, and the impact this had on his role in the civil rights movement.
Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by
Brings together the voices of twelve of America's most influential African-American preachers. Each of these renowned preachers describes his or her method of sermon preparation and includes a sample sermon for illustration.
Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present by
The collection provides new insights into the underpinnings of the black fight for emancipation and the rise and growth of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sermons from the first decade of the twenty-first century point toward the future of African American preaching. Biographies of the preachers put their work in the cultural and homiletic context of their periods.
Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 by
A collection of sermons by African American women preachers that gives voice to the long-ignored founding mothers of the African American church.
A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina (Online) by
Autobiography of the Rev. Charlotte Riley, the first licensed woman preacher in the South Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Employs extensive biblical text to justify her call to preach the Christian gospel. Riley’s narrative, first published in the early twentieth century, recounts her lived experiences during the nineteenth century and serves as a literary example of biblical exegesis. Extensive footnotes contextualizing scriptural usage.
Prophesying Daughters: Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 by
Analyzes the role of biblical interpretation in the narratives of Jarena Lee, Julia Foote, Maria Stewart, and Frances Gaudet. Argues that the authors’ act of writing serves as a type of prophesying and a means to consider speech, travel, and social activism.
Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America (Online) by
A careful reading of 19th-century Black women preachers' narratives and their texts, both written and spoken, to make explicit their theology. At once a work of religious history, biography, and constructive theology, Storied Witness calls attention to the essential lived witness of Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth.
Those Preachin' Women by
Collection of sermons reproduced by fourteen 20th-century black American preaching women, with short biographical sketches. Introduction focuses on women in the ministry.
The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric From the Pulpit (Online) by
A close textual analysis of five womanist sermons to answer the question: how does womanist preaching attempt to transform/adapt the tenets of womanist thought to make it rhetorically viable in the church? And what is gained and lost in this?
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