The Black Church Is Dead Summary

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In an effort to examine the ideology of the Black Church as a tradition in transition, one must first assess the historicity of the tradition. Born and raised in the heart of the South, in a black church context, my knowledge of black church traditions is a collaboration of “first-hand” experiences coupled with oratorical expressions of historical traditions. This history combined with knowledge garnered from the assigned class readings, provides me a wealth of information and occurrences relative to the black church.
The Black Church is Dead (Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D.)...or is it? In his blog, The Black Church is Dead, Mr. Glaude, presents an assessment of the Black Church, stating that “The Black Church, as we’ve known it or imagined it, is dead.” (1) Glaude employs a riveting title as an indelible attention starter. He presents a thorough yet concise argument to support his …show more content…

Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” We have been called to be apart of ministry for such a time as this, to serve as leaders in the transition in traditions within the Black Church context.
Women in Ministry
In Du Bois on Religion, Chapter 5 of The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois refers to, “...all these he is and ever, too, the center of a group of men…” (48). Du Bois speaks of a pastor as “he,” which aligns with the traditional, historical context for the office of a preacher which would have been explicitly reserved for men.
My analytical lens is informed by my status as an African American woman reared in a Christian household. My Christian upbringing took place in a predominantly black congregation in the Southern region of the United States of America. Growing up in a Southern Baptist Church, I did not see any women as pastors or in the pulpit, yet we had a woman in the role of superintendent of Sunday School. Coincidentally, my Sunday School class was taught by a female

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