Sentences with phrase «of black preachers»

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

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

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

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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.»

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.&rblack 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 tunnelpreacher 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.&rblack community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.&rBlack Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnelPreacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

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.

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.

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.

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 apathblack 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 apathBlack 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 apathblack preachers who minister to those who are unemployed, underemployed, addicted to alcohol and drugs, illiterate and apathetic.

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

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).

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.

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..

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.»

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

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.

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!

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.

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»).

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.

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.

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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American Gods and The Handmaid's Tale are done, Game of Thrones isn't on the air yet, and Preacher and Orphan Black are brutally murdering fun characters and all our feelings.

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.

Her other triumphs include Cassidy's ridiculous outdoor getup and Cooper's impeccably tailored preacher - by - way - of - a-cowboy all - black duds.)

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).

Ball Street, which hails from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl), and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Preacher), takes us back to October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday — one of the worst stock market crashes in the history of Wall Street.

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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.

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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.

The city was torn into moonlit strips — the dour Castle, the High Kirk where Reform preachers stoked hearts and minds, the dark maw of the Grassmarket and the tenements sliding down the long spine to the palace where Jamie Saxt (but six years our elder) slept uneasily amidst the ghosts of his many murdered regents, his fantasies of sorcerers... On Inchcombe island the abandoned monastery was a black ship with its cargo of souls, going nowhere... In the nearby Auld Kirk of North Berwick the witch trials were proceeding by that most reliable proof: evidence under torture.

Undaunted, White continued to advance a politics of struggle in his art, celebrating historical figures who resisted slavery and depicting ordinary black farmers, preachers, mothers, and other workers with an unwavering strength and a silent, solid grace.

Loid is a preacher of the fire - and - brimstone variety, whose presence is always black and white, literally and metaphorically.