Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith
(b. 1935), an iconoclastic black minister who has channeled his
civil rights work into establishing multi-racial churches in four
cities—Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; St. Louis, MO; Brooklyn,
NY—over a six-decade career. Following the lead of his mentor,
Dr. Howard Thurman (who was also a key influence on Martin Luther
King Jr.), Smith has concentrated on building thriving
multicultural congregations to create the sorts of communities
envisioned by King and others. In 1979, he became the first black
minister of all-white Hillside Presbyterian Church in Decatur,
Georgia, making him a unique leader among the 4,000 Presbyterian
congregations in the United States. In 1986, he was elected the
first African American pastor of First Presbyterian Church in
Brooklyn Heights, New York. Throughout his ministry in various
churches, he has consciously moved his congregations toward being
explicitly multi-cultural and multi-racial, as well as more
politically active and welcoming of LGBTQ communities. Hendrickson
examines his pastoral care and his increased work with
corporations, colleges, and charitable foundations. Building
Beloved Communities details the complicated life of a man dedicated
to serving as a bridge between Christianity, community activism,
public health institutions, and the business world. Based on
archival research, historical analysis, and original interviews
with Smith and his colleagues, Hildi Hendrickson offers a critical
biography of the preacher and his work from the 1960s to the
present.
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