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How do you hold on to hope after more than twenty years of imprisonment? For Alice Marie Johnson the answer lies with God. For years, Alice lived a normal life without a criminal record -- she was a manager at FedEx, a wife, and a mother. But after an emotionally and financially tumultuous period in her life left her with few options, she turned to crime as a way to pay off her mounting debts. Convicted in 1996 for her nonviolent involvement in a...
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an't Nothing Bring Me Down is the memoir of 101-year-old, world-record-holding runner Ida Keeling. Miss Ida, as she's known throughout her Bronx community, isn't your typical runner. Her fierce independence helped her through the Depression and the Civil Rights movement. But her greatest trials were yet to come.Ida's two sons were brutally murdered. Justice was never found. Ida felt like she didn't have the strength to carry on and she couldn't hope...
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In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks. This suffering is so normalized in American life that it often goes unnoticed, unseen, and even--more often--purposely ignored. The reality of Black suffering is both omnipresent and complicated--both a reaction to and a result of the reality of white supremacy, its psychological...
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Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life. Many focus on an essential scene of the Christian drama: the coming of God as the child in Bethlehem and as the hope of the world and the liberator of God's oppressed people.
In these devotions for the season of Advent, Luke Powery leads the reader through the spirituals as they confront...
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Are you ready to fall in love with your purpose? Kiss it in the Mouth I Dare You, offers readers the opportunity to experience the various stages and emotions of commitment by equating being in love with your purpose to that of being in an intimate relationship. If you can visualize your goals, but just can't seem to reach them, then this book is for you. If you feel like you're stuck in a state of limbo, then this book will help you come out of that...
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One bad decision or tragedy can change the direction of your life in an instant. How do you succeed when you feel like a failure? Have you lost hope? Is God there, and does He care? Will you ever get your life back on track?
Redemption & Renewal is one man's journey through a life full of bad choices, tragedies, and lessons learned along the way. His story will show you how stumbling blocks become stepping stones to success if you keep the faith.
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Too often, all oppressed people in America are lumped together under the moniker "people of color," as if each group's experience under the yoke of systemic racism has the same economic and social repercussions. But the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) hold a unique claim to economic and reparative justice: for ADOS, after all, is the only group whose ancestors were forcibly brought to America, enslaved, built much of the wealth of the country,...
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Recently, Black America has been portrayed as the most maligned and persecuted people group in history, and the perpetrators have been identified as Europeans and their descendants. While the treatment of black people, worldwide and in America, by Europeans was terrible to say the least, it is the lack of forgiveness for those past sins which holds the descendants of African slaves in bondage today. Facing the truth about our own sins and forgiveness...
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This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people? Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing on prosperity theology rather than on social justice; requiring excessive monetary and time commitments of members; and pilfering church coffers for the their...
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