Sentences with phrase «black preachers»

And while Jim never said this, the «committee on style» (which everyone knows deals with much more than style) for such a «Constitution» would logically consist of black preachers most of all.

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.

I know quite a bit about the Mormon faith and Mormon have evolved toward mainstream Christianity during my lifetime, while Black preachers have sold their congregations into slavery, like Malcolm X predicted.

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

As Malcolm X (R) predicted, the white liberals bought off a few black preachers and that was the end of the black civil rights movement.

At the same time, black preachers served as a bridge between blacks and the white world.

Although black preachers and theologians may disagree on the relation of black theology to the church, the time for antagonism between preachers and theologians has passed.

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.

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.

Not black preachers or white mullahs.

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.

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.

The Prodigal Songouache version was commissioned to accompany James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, a collection of free - verse poems inspired by folk sermons of southern black preachers.

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

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

This ironic arrangement, in which the black preacher represented the white community, had its roots in the slave master's use of slave preachers to deliver sermons espousing otherworldly realities.

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

Simply put, black preachers are socially bilingual.

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.»

Black preachers are socially bilingual.

Thus, in an unholy and unnatural way, the «Negro clergy class is the white man's right hand over the so - called Negroes,» and the black preacher is the greatest hindrance to their progress and equality.

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.

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

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.

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.

they both prayed over it for sometime and when they meet again the white preacher said God did nt tell him what color he was, but the black preacher said God told me «I AM WHAT I AM» the white preacher said i told you he was white!!!! the black one said how do you get hes white from sayng i am what i am?

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.»

them and those black preachers that denounced your gay marriage stance, make religious organization pay taxes!!!!

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.

A powerful group of black preachers is backing Cuomo's education - reform plan to tighten teacher accountability, fix or replace low - performing public schools and open more charter schools.

This dramatization of the life and death of Nat Turner, the black preacher who led an 1831 slave insurrection in Virginia, earned its first standing ovation at Sundance in...

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).

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.