The Divided Mind of the Black Church
Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
By Raphael G. Warnock
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central... Read more »
The Black Church in the African American Experience
By C. Eric Lincoln & Lawrence H. Mamiya
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 18 hours 48 minutes
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since... Read more »
The Black Church
This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community's abiding rock and its fortress.
The companion book to the upcoming PBS series.
For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a... Read more »