Book Description
This volume’s contributors—dynamic and progressive African American church leaders—advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelism in support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of church life. Among the writers are Charles G. Adams, Randall C. Bailey, James H. Cone, James A. Forbes, Jacquelyn Grant, Obery Hendricks, Asa G. Hilliard, Dwight N. Hopkins, Cecil Murray, and Gayraud Wilmore. All were presenters in 2004 at the first Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, established to reinvigorate the social justice agenda of America’s black churches.


About the Author
Iva E. Carruthers is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. She is the author of The Church and Reparations (2001). Frederick D. Haynes III is Senior Pastor of Friendship- West Baptist Church in Dallas and Executive Secretary of the Evangelism Board of the National Baptist Convention. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago. He is author of Africans Who Shaped Our Faith (1995).