Bøker av Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

The second edition features an updated commentary on each book of the Hebrew Bible that is authoritative for African and African-diaspora communities worldwide. It highlights issues of the Black community (such as globalization and the colonial legacy) and the distinctive norms of interpretation in African and African-diaspora settings.

In The Undivided Soul: Helping Congregations Connect Body and Spirit, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan offers a worship, study, and sermon planning resource containing meditations, responsive readings, poems, and prayers for use by pastors, educators, and small-group leaders. This volume is designed as a teaching/learning guide. Each chapter explores various aspects of faith, health, and spirituality. The book can be used as a worship resource for Sunday worship, retreats, or other gatherings; it can be used as a devotional resource for small groups; it can be a study guide for group study or retreats. This resource is designed to help persons and groups explore the relationship between the faith journey, physical bodies, and spiritual discipline. Key Features: - Explores various aspects of faith, health, and spirituality as well as how the three are connected - Provides ready-made worship and study materials - Includes ideas for one-day seminars - Ideal for both pastors and small-group leaders Key Benefits: - Helps readers understand the relationship between faith journey, physical body, and spiritual discipline - Provides pastors, worship leaders, Bible study leaders, and small-group leaders with ready-to-use resources (such as responsive readings, meditations, prayers, and vows of commitment) - Provides group leaders with resources for seminars, short-term study, or occasional devotion or discussion topics - Provides retreat leaders with abundant resources for spirituality retreats

A collection of worship services for various special days celebrated in most African American churches. Programs provide an introduction tying the African American heritage to the occasion, with a welcome address, prayer, litany, Scripture, and suggested parament colors. Includes graduation/promotion, homecoming, Mother/Father's Days, groundbreaking and cornerstone services, mortgage-burning, Black History celebration, and others.