Includes recitations, prayers, poetry, speeches, and responses for special days in the African American church. This book includes speeches and responses for a variety of special days in the church including suggested Scripture and recitations. Perfect as a worship planning tool for pastors and other worship leaders, Welcome Speeches for Special Days is ideal for celebrating special Sundays that congregations highlight throughout the year.
Includes recitations, prayers, poetry, speeches, and responses for special days in the African American church. This book includes speeches and respon...
In The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning resource containing meditations, responsive readings, poems, and prayers for use by pastors, educators, and small-group leaders. This volume is designed as a teaching/learning guide. Each chapter explores various aspects of faith, health, and spirituality. The book can be used as a worship resource for Sunday worship, retreats, or other gatherings; it can be used as a devotional resource for small groups; it can be a study guide for group study or...
In The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning reso...
By blending the traditional elements of the worship service with African Americanculture, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan once again provides a practical resource for planningmore of the special Sundays that congregations celebrate throughout theyear. More African American Special Days contains fifteen services forspecial occasions, including: Pastor 's Day, Men 's Day, Women 's Day, Mother 's Day, Father 's Day, Kwanzaa, M.L. King, Jr. Day, Watch Night, Usher 's Day, Homecoming/Family Reunion, Deacon s/Steward 's Day, Deaconess/Stewardess Day, YouthRite of Passage, Board of Christian Education, and...
By blending the traditional elements of the worship service with African Americanculture, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan once again provides a practical resour...
What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involvement in violence -- for good and ill -- in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.
What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involve...
"Women and Christianity" explores the experiences of women and how their daily lives interface with their spirituality and faith. Beginning with a historical overview, the book presents essays grouped under five broad headings: women, family, and environment; socioeconomics, politics, and authority; body, mind, and spirit; sex, power, and vulnerability; and women, world view, and religious practice.
These essays focus on multiple aspects of women's experiences and contemporary Christian realities, involving the interrelatedness of faith, thought, and activism across many strata of...
"Women and Christianity" explores the experiences of women and how their daily lives interface with their spirituality and faith. Beginning with a...
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The expert essays in "Women and Islam" are designed to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world. They explore the issues Muslim women face as they fight for gender justice and meet the challenges of living in a globalized, post-9/11 world--whether in Iran or France, Ethiopia, or the United States.
Each chapter examines a different part of the globe, exploring issues arising from cultural and religious codes, as well as from internal and global politics, economics, education, and the law. Readers will glimpse...
The expert essays in "Women and Islam" are designed to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Mus...
