Safiyah Fosua

Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice - DVD

Sat, 14 May 2022 04:28:30 GMT

A 2015 Emmy Award Winner. Four centuries ago, Blacks enslaved in America created a music form that gave solace even during the most inhumane conditions. Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice: Preserving the Gift of Black Sacred Music traces the music's history and invites readers to see and experience the ways it is being kept alive. A small-group study is available here.

The Africana Worship Book (Year C)

Sat, 14 May 2022 03:58:21 GMT

Completing the series, The Africana Worship Book (Year C) offers the same diversity as the 2 other volumes with all new material from new voices.

The Africana Worship Book (Year B)

Sat, 14 May 2022 03:58:00 GMT

The second volume of this compilation includes all new Africana worship references and great new features - including a worship plan for young adults, articles on the Africana worship praxis, short dramatic monologues and sound files.

Like the first volume, Volume 2 offers new, specially written…

calls to worship
liturgies
prayers
litanies
offertory prayers
doxologies
choral readings
creeds
chants and benedictions

Contributors include: Dr. Eugene Blair, Vonzella Bryant, Carolyn Dandridge, T. Anne Daniel, Rev. Joseph Daniels Jr., Rev. Junius Dotson, Rev. Sherrie Dobbs Johnson, Rev. Bryan Fleet, Dr. Cynthia Hopson, Theon Johnson III, Rev. Kwasi Kena, Rev. Darlene Moore, Toni Payne, Tony Peterson, Rev. Vance P. Ross, Ciona Rouse, Rev. Kelvin Sauls, Rev. B. Kevin Smalls, Rev. Lillian Smith, Rev. Marilyn Thornton, Stephen Williams, Brian Wilson, Rev. Stacey Coles Wilson.

CD-ROM included! Easily copy and paste excerpts from the many creative prayers and meditations of The Africana Worship Book for use in your own congregation's printed orders of worship.

The Africana Worship Book (Year A)

Sat, 14 May 2022 03:57:39 GMT

Celebrate the joyful spiritual spark found in Africana worship!

Worship is the lifeblood of the church. To Africana worshippers, God is very present in the service, and the response is heartfelt, jubilant and authentic.

The Africana Worship Book uncovers the "best-of" from the African-American church as well as from the Caribbean, American, and African shores.

The collected works found in this resource, which are based on Year A the Revised Common Lectionary, include profound and grace-filled liturgies for prayers, calls to worship and giving, choral readings and creedal statements—all written by 16 African-American contributors to represent the rich worship cultural heritage of this community.

Worship resources for special days like Black History Month, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Watchnight are also included.

"This book satisfies my longing for relevant, prophetic, and 'keeping it real' God-talk," writes one reviewer. "I was stunned by the power and forthright liturgical honesty of this book. As people of the Word, the Spirit, and ancestral legacies spoken and implicit, we sometimes find ourselves bereft and numb when the incongruity and surprise of our 21st century lives collide with what we know about who we are in the sight of God. These resources remind me that as a people of faith, we are still on the journey toward a hopeful future."

Discover new heights and depths of praise in the pages of this forward-looking, cultural celebration.

Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice

Sat, 14 May 2022 02:49:18 GMT

This small-group study serves as a companion resource for the 2015 Emmy-winning DVD, Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice: Preserving the Gift of Black Sacred Music. Four centuries ago, Blacks enslaved in America created a music form that gave solace even during the most inhumane conditions. Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice: Preserving the Gift of Black Sacred Music traces the music's history and invites readers to see and experience the ways it is being kept alive. Purchase the DVD here.

Companion to The Africana Worship Book

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:27:07 GMT

Worship is when "God shows up and shows out!"

African-American worship affirms that an active God embodies human lives through companionship and communion.

This volume of essays, interlacing worship pieces with reflections from prominent leaders and emerging thinkers in Africana life, is designed to help churches, professors, and students reflect more deeply on worship and practice.

Building a bridge of understanding through collective experiences, the Companion to the Africana Worship Book shows the roots and fruits of rich worship. The series of worship books includes The Africana Worship Book (Year A | Volume 1) and The Africana Worship Book (Year B | Volume 2).

Essays and contributors in the Companion include:

"21 Questions Revisited" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis
"Go Play with God: Reclaiming Liturgy for Spiritual Formation" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis
"Liturgy as Subversive Activity" by Safiyah Fosua
"To Serve This Present Age" by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
"Africana Theology for the Black Church" by Safiyah Fosua
"Worshipping Contextually: the Bassa People in the United Methodist Church in Liberia" by Pianapue Kept Early
"Translatability as Belonging: Bassa United Methodist Christians in Liberia" by Pianapue Kept Early
"The Creation of an Africana Worship Ritual: Baptism in the Shouters of Trinidad" by Gennifer Benjamin Brooks
"The African-American Church and Sacraments: But Can We Still Get Our 'Circament?'" by William B. McClain
"Death as Worship: Celebrating Dying as Part of Life" by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
"The African-American Funeral Sermon: Divine Re-Framing of Human Tragedy" by Frank A. Thomas
"Music in Africana Worship" by Melinda Weekes
"Doxology in Darkness" by Jessica Kendall Ingram
"In the Spirit" by Lisa Allen
"That Was Then, This Is NOW" by Otis Moss III
"Emerging Possibilities for African-American Churches" by Douglas Powe
"Technologies for Worship" by Elonda Clay
"Lord, How Come We Here?" by William B. McClain
"Spiritual Focus and Africana Worship" by Henry Mitchell
"Worship: The Realm of the Spirit, the Realm of the Imagination, and Real Time" by Marilyn Thornton
"Inclusive Language and Africana Worship" by Valerie Bridgeman Davis
"Testify!" by Wilma Taylor
"A Womanist Perspective on Spiritual Practices" by Linda Hollies

Reflect, Reclaim, Rejoice

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:06:50 GMT