Sentences with phrase «black women preachers»

1 Sermons by Black Women Preachers)

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When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

He makes a practice of inviting the greatest black preachers (both men and women) of the nation to preach at Allen Temple so his people can hear them.

Ulster County's own Sojourner Truth — former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women's rights — was the first black woman to go to court against a white man and win.

Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre of black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's Black Woman or The Preacher's Wife.

This act of violence sets off a series of events and recollections, including the story of Alexander Bedward, the 1920s town preacher who claimed that he could fly; and the school's modern - day principal, a wealthy white woman who hires Gina to be her housekeeper without knowing the secret behind the black woman's connection to her family.