by Bob | Feb 10, 2009 | Beyond the Suffering, Black History Month, slave Spirituals, Spirituals, The Journey
The Journey: Forty Days of PromiseCelebrating the Legacy of African American ChristianityDay Twenty-Four: Slave SpiritualsWelcome to day twenty-four of our forty-day intercultural journey. From Martin Luther King Day to the end of Black History Month we are focusing...
by Bob | Feb 9, 2009 | Beyond the Suffering, slave Spirituals, Spirituals, The Journey
The Journey: Forty Days of PromiseCelebrating the Legacy of African American ChristianityDay Twenty-Three: Praising the LordWelcome to day twenty-three of our forty-day intercultural journey. From Martin Luther King Day to the end of Black History Month we are...
by Bob | Nov 28, 2007 | African American Church, slave Spirituals, Spirituals
African American Spirituals: Telling the Rest of the Story[i] To appreciate the meaning, message, and mutual ministry of the slave spirituals, it is vital to understand how and why they were composed. Carey Davenport, a retired Black Methodist minister from Texas, had...
