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The premise of this work is that a new vision of pastoral leadership in the black church is needed at the outset of the twenty-first century. My vision is that “transformative pastoral leadership” is needed to transform individuals, churches, and society. This new vision is needed because many denominational black churches do not have the capacity to carry out the black church’s dual mission of salvation and liberation.
We need leaders—neither saints nor sparkling television personalities—who can situate themselves within a larger historical narrative of this country and world, who can grasp the complex dynamics of our peoplehood and imagine a future grounded in the best of our past, yet who are attuned to the frightening obstacles that now perplex us.
—Cornel West, Race Matters
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Morgenthaler argues that in this postmodern context it is “time to get real.” By this, she means that worship must nurture a real interactive encounter between seekers and the Divine. Sally Morgenthaler, Worship Evangelism: Inviting Unbelievers into the Presence of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1999).
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Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” in Black Theology: A Documentary History Volume One: 1966–1979, ed., James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore, 2nd ed. rev. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993), 340.
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Dr. Evans’s belief in the giftedness of every individual is shared by those who think that releasing individual capacities in marginalized communities is one of the steps to asset-based community development. See John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. (Evanston, IL: Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University, 1993).
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Tribble, J.L. (2005). Emerging Strategies of Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church. In: Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church. Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8091-5_4
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