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African American Studies/History
THE DIVIDED MIND OF THE BLACK CHURCH: THEOLOGY, PIETY AND PUBLIC WITNESS BY RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK
The Radical King Edited by Cornel West
The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander and Cornel West
From Slavery to Freedom
By John Hope Franklin
Stride Toward Freedom
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why We Can't Wait By Martin Luther King, Jr.
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
By Joseph E. Lowrey
The Cross and the Lynching Tree By James H. Cone
The Spirituals and the Blues
By James H. Cone
The Domestication of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy Edited by Lewis V. Baldwin and Rufus Burrow, Jr.
Christen Living
Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer & the Christian Life
By William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas
Homilectics/Preaching
The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority
By Samuel D. Proctor and Gardner C. Taylor
How Shall They Preach
By Gardner C. Taylor
Black Preaching: The Recovery of a Powerful Art
By Henry Mitchell
Rethinking Celebration: From Rhetoric to Praise in African American Preaching
By Cleophus J. LaRue
Blue Note Preaching In A Post-Soul World: Finding Hope In An Age of Despair
By Otis Moss III
The Jazz of Preaching: How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy
By Kirk Byron Jones
They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God: The Role of Celebration in Preaching (Revised and Updated)
By Frank A. Tomas
The Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights
By Kenyatta R. Gilbert
Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching (Release Date Nov 15, 2016 - Released Early October 2016)
By Frank A. Thomas
Preaching With Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present By Frank A. Thomas
The Strength to Love
By Martin Luther King, Jr.
God’s Trombones
By James W. Johnson
Spirit Speech: Lament and Celebration in Preaching
By Luke A. Powery
The Preaching Event By John Claypool
The Joy of Preaching By Phillips Brooks
Religion and Philosophy
Meditations of the Heart By Howard Thurman
The Inward Journey By Howard Thurman
The Cost of Discipleship
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Spiritual Formation
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life By Donald S. Whitney
The Wounded Healer By Henri Nouwen
Turn My Mourning Into Dancing
By Henri Nouwen
The Only Necessary Thing
By Henri Nouwen
Can You Drink The Cup?
By Henri Nouwen
The Return of the Prodigal Son
By Henri Nouwen
The Courage to Be
By Paul Tillich
Theology/Philosophy
Doctrine That Dance: Bring Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life
By Robert Smith Jr. and James Earl Massey
Bonhoeffer & King: Speaking Truth to Power
By J. Deotis Roberts
Basic Christianity
By John Stott
The Cost of Discipleship
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Between Two Worlds By John Stott
The Politics of Jesus By John Howard Yoder
Your God is Too Small By J. B. Phillips
The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted
By Oberry M. Hendricks, Jr.
Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider
By Lisa L. Thompson
Worship and Leadership
Seeking the Face of God
By J. Daniel Day
African American Management Handbook
By Floyd H. Flake
Church Administration in the Black Perspective
By Floyd Massey Jr. and Samuel McKinney
Church Administration Handbook
By Bruce Powers