V. DuWayne Battle is the Senior Minister of the St. Paul Baptist Church, Montclair, New Jersey, and on the faculty of the Graduate School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Born in Washington, District of Columbia, he earned the M.Div. and D.Min. degrees from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, and the M.S.W. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University. He has done further studies at Oxford University and Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to Dr. Battle's 25 years of pastoral experience, his ministry has taken him to six co...