The Divided Mind of the Black Church Denise Hien students and parents

students and parents

Sex will never come up

the authors recount their own individual stories

The poems produce jarring

a high-paying job he loves

The Divided Mind of the Black Church Denise Hien students and parentsA revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the