18. Kelly Brown Douglas, “The Work Our Soul Must Do” (keynote speech, Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, Diocesan Convention, November 15, 2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLTDDFSxMVA&t=1774s.
19. Pauli Murray, “Salvation and Liberation,” in Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder, 264.
20. Pauli Murray, “Salvation and Liberation,” in Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder, 266–67.
21. Pauli Murray, “Salvation and Liberation,” in Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder, 267.
22. Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder, 269.
23. Frank Thomas, “The Nature and Purpose of Preaching,” July 4, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=Qi22PK3DA4Y&feature=emb_title.
24. McMickle, Making of a Preacher, 162.
25. McMickle, Making of a Preacher, 163.
26. Frederick Hilborn Talbot, African American Worship: New Eyes for Seeing (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2007), 67.
27. Talbot, African American Worship, 67.
28. Annie Woodley Brown, “Racism and the Christian Church in America: Caught between the Knowledge of Good and Evil,” Social Work in Public Health 34, issue 1 (March 2019), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19371918.2019.1566111.
29. Frank A. Thomas, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018), xii.
30. Phil Snider, ed., Preaching Resistance: Voices of Hope, Justice and Solidarity (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2018), 1.
31. Katie Geneva Cannon, Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric (New York: Continuum, 2003), 53.
32. Thomas, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon, xv.
33. Costen, African American Christian Worship, 67–68.
34. W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary, https://www.ctschicago.edu/people/w-scotthaldeman/.
35. The Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas teaches and is the director of the PhD program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana.
36. Frank A. Thomas, Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching (Nashville: Abington Press, 2016), 9.
37. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, “The Revolution Will Be Live-Tweeted: Why #BlackLivesMatter Is the New Model for Civil Rights,” The Guardian, December 1, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/black-lives-matter-civil-rights-movement-ferguson.
38. Alan Bean, “Why (White) Millennials Are Leaving the Church,” Friends of Justice (blog), December 20, 2014, https://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/why-white-millennials-are-leaving-the-church.
39. Thomas, Practice of African American Preaching, 146.
40. Cannon, Teaching Preaching, 57.
41. Thomas, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon, xv.
42. Snider, Preaching Resistance, 5.
43. Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach (Louisville: John Knox Press, 2010), 11–20.
44. Walter Bruggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), 65.
45. Thomas, How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon, xv.
46. Bruggemann, Prophetic Imagination, 65.
47. John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 29.
Just a Few Thoughts (Questions, Really) on Race 1
What is race? A thing to run? If so, then, how?
A thing to which we run to as a shelter for safety, literally a roof under which our identity may dwell secure, a ground on which our integrity, the maintenance of that identity, may stand?
Or do we run to race simply, but no less significantly, as a source of pride in our presence and progress, our survival and success, as in those still heard phrases in many places, Black or White or (choose a color) power?
Or do we run to race so to run through race, to get to the other side, to stand with the other, so to see one another through the lens of the commonality of our humanity, as in that generation ago liberal-minded goal of a color-blind society? (A laudable ideal in theory, the pursuit of which, however, is beset by an insoluble real-world problem: even when color-blind, we all still see Black and White. It seems that we can’t run through race to some mythological place of total color unconsciousness.)