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What is worship? For the Africana community, worship is the time or
place where God "shows up and shows out," affirming that an active
God embodies human lives through companionship and communion. This
type of worship allows God to enter into worshipper's lives with an
openness to respond with swaying of the body, tapping feet, weeping
eyes, and heartfelt emotion. The Africana Worship Book responds to
the call to unite African American communities with worship in
their cultural style and to continue speaking to the present and
coming generations of African American descendants. This volume is
a collection of liturgies for congregational prayers, calls to
worship, choral readings, prayers of confession, giving, and
creedal statements, written by sixteen African American
contributors. It also offers designer and writers of worship events
a set of questions to consult which offers profound, grace-filled,
godly worship. The Africana Worship Book is the resource for
helping African American church people navigate their concerns and
love toward God through worship.
Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham
and Atlanta. In 1961, the city's potential for race-related
violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed
a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident a few black and
white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that
desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the
community than to divide it, and created a biracial Human Relations
Council which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation
laws and customs. The Council did not prevent all disorder in
Anniston, yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights
bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties.
Phil Noble, a Presbyterian Minister in Anniston and participant in
the Council, offers his account of the events, carefully researched
but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the
civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were
in it or those who were opposed to it.
Companion to Songs of Zion; discusses liturgical time, spirituals,
gospel songs; includes Scripture/ lectionary index.
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