Michael Brown offers an overview of the history of the development of African American and Afrocentric biblical interpretation. He then discusses how such scholarship began as an attempt to correct the biases African Americans perceived to be manifest in European and Euro-American biblical scholarship. This corrective, he says, quickly developed a life of its own, and Afrocentric biblical interpretation developed its own interpretive voice and style. Brown also examines Afrocentrism and the "blackening of the Bible," offering a critique of the color politics of Afrocentric criticism. He...

Two thousand years ago Jesus sits on a mountain in Galilee and speaks. In this sermon for the ages, he answers the question, What is my purpose? Lost your zest for life? Need to know what God wants for you? Tired of praying without knowing why? The Lord's Prayer answers all of these questions and more. The Lord's Prayer and God's Vision for the World brings you face-to-face with God's vision for you.