Sentences with phrase «black preacher»

I want to take you back to 1963 — to a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama where a courageous young Black preacher fighting to end segregation was illegally confined for three days after being arrested for leading non-violent protests in the city.

Parker delivers an Oscar - caliber performance as Nat Turner, a black preacher in the antebellum South who led an uprising of his fellow slaves three decades prior to the Civil War.

After years of being the best thing on the sidelines in movies as varied as Mudbound, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Friday Night Lights, the growly actor stars as a rising enlistee of the Ku Klux Klan who undergoes a radical transformation with the help of a single mom (Andrea Riseborough) and a black preacher (Forest Whitaker).

Akeem encounters all of the wonders of black America, but the satirical twist is genius — the black preacher (via Hall as the incomparable Reverend Brown), the club scene, the barbershop, hip - hop culture, and Soul Glo — it's all here.

With his gray hair, dark suit, and muted perma - smirk, he blended into the human backdrop that had been arranged behind the candidate — nodding thoughtfully, clapping on cue, and dutifully shuffling out of the way when Trump turned around to high - five a black preacher.

To be effective, a modern minister needs to have moved beyond holding stereotypical views of the «mainline Protestant,» the «Catholic priest» and the «black preacher.»

MacDonald told Christianity Today his resignation was partly prompted by an invitation he extended to popular black preacher T. D. Jakes to appear in a debate event MacDonald sponsors.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a product of the southern black experience: son of a Baptist preacher, graduate of Morehouse College, holder of a Ph.D. degree in systematic theology, black preacher, prophet in word and deed — Martin Luther King, Jr., came on too strong for a nation that had from its very inception used so much of its energy in declaring black people invisible, irrelevant, null and void.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

Black theology has apparently been dialoguing with everyone except «Aunt Jane» and the black preacher.

As time went on, the black preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

The black preacher has taught his people to stand still and turn the other cheek.

Consider this indictment of black preachers by Black Muslims (recorded in C. Eric Lincoln's Black Muslims in America):

The roots of black preachers» prerogative and power are in the soils of African religion and American racism.

To understand the black preachers» lofty status among their own people and how they nurtured authentic participation with the majority on matters of public interest, one must understand how the black preacher has played the role of double agent or dual interpreter.

This can not happen without the direct involvement of black preachers and parishioners.

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

For example, black pastors question how the Society for the Study of Black Religion really can understand the religion of blacks when absent from this group are black preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

Churches that invite black people and people of color into their «multicultural» worship spaces, but implicitly ask black singers to leave gospel music behind, ask black musicians to leave their hammond B - 3 behind or suggest that black preachers need to leave the fire of their «hoop» or preaching passion behind is a sunken - place theology.

Dr. Smith, on the other hand, while deeply influenced by the strong, prophetic black preachers his mother made sure he heard, exercised considerable resistance to the call initially.

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.

The service was led by the Rev. James Forbes Jr., one of the country's most influential black preachers and former head of the historic church.

Johnson had been inspired by charismatic black preachers, while Douglas, in turn, was inspired by Johnson's remarkable poetry.

Not exact matches

Should your preacher be allowed to refuse communion for being black?

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

The African reality of a wholistic as opposed to a secular and a sacred life, the place of the black church as sole as well as «soul» refuge during slavery, and the gift of oratory made the preacher the symbolic head and heart of his people.

Lucifer is using the church of God (these black ministers) to spread hatred, however, know the lord sayeth that you should be able to see a false prophet and a false preacher by his words and actions.

CNN, Fox, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, NBC CBs etc all ran relentless stories on Obama's crazy «black racist» preacher Rev wright.

Black folk expect the preacher to reassure them of God's power, not to question or doubt it.

I find it funny that a right wing, fundemetalist Jew - hatin», black fearin, gay - bashin» preacher would scream about ANYTHING being «intolerant».

William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (Boston: Gorham Press, 1918 - 20); cf. Herbert Blumer, An Appraisal of Thomas» «The Polish Peasant in Europe and America» (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1939); Ellsworth Faris, «The Sect and the Sectarian,» in The Nature of Human Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938); Liston Pope, Millhands and Preachers, A Study of Gastonia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1940); Raymond J. Jones, A Comparative Study of Civil Behavior Among Negroes (Washington: Howard University, 1939); Arthur H. Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944); J. F. C. Wright, Slava Boku, The Story of the Dukhobors (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1940); Ephraim Ericksen, The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922); Edward Jones Allen, The Second United Order among Mormons (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936); Robert Henry Murray, Group Movements Through the Ages (New York: Harper & Bros., 1935); David Ludlum, Social Ferment in Vermont, Columbia Studies in American Culture, No. 5 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).

For example, in the black church services I have attended, the congregants will urge on the preacher during a sermon.

It is a pity that, in order to be a respected black leader in the USA, one must call oneself a «reverend» and come up through the ranks as a preacher.

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Clinton can be a preacher who connects with his audience (especially in black churches) through biblical passages.

America responded to his cry for justice for black people by declaring that preachers ought to concern themselves with the suffering world.

years ago two preachers (one was a black man and the other was white) were arguing about what color God was....

He taught black scholars in religion and many preachers that a colorless Christianity is a joke — only found in the imaginary world of white theology.

Let's go back to the «GOOD OLD DAYS» of full churches, when preachers stood up in the pulpits and preached that 1) the Bible says SLAVERY IS OK 2) Blacks are little better than MONKEYS 3) Slavery is the «natural condition» of Black people 4) Integration is the work of the devil, etc. etc..

N u get a white preacher to help with black history smh the Romans tripping

First you're angry with the preacher at his church, because he preaches a form of Black exceptionalism.

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.

If ever there was any doubt that the ChristIan is rooted in bigotry; this meeting put that doubt to rest; a ChristIan preacher endorsing a member of a cult over a true christIan simply because of Obama's race - black!

She purchased black newspapers for him to read, introduced him to black history, and, most importantly, made sure he heard in person all the great black leaders and preachers who came to Kansas City.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

Christian preacher - man Prophet Reindolph Oduro Gyebi has shockingly predicted that Ghana's senior national team the Black Stars will be involved in a fatal plane crash in September and the country's legend Abedi Pele will also die this year.

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.

Mr. Green, president of a group of pastors named Mobilizing Preachers and Community, said he rejected Mr. Cuomo's first request to introduce him at a black church a week ago in part because he is unhappy with the governor's record on minority contracting.

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.

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