Creative approaches to preaching and worship in African American Christianity will be detailed in classes led by two Vanderbilt Divinity School professors as part of Vanderbilt’s Relevant Religion Series.
The “African American Preaching and Worship: New Trends and Time-Honored Traditions” sessions will be held March 25, April 1 and April 8 at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church at 1203 Ninth Ave. N. There is a charge of $10 to attend all of the classes, which run from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The classes will be led by Forrest E. Harris, assistant professor of the practice of ministry and director of Vanderbilt’s Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies; and Brad R. Braxton, associate professor of homiletics and New Testament. Their conversation will focus on the newly launched African American Lectionary, the first online interdenominational lectionary specifically for African American churches. The lectionary is a collaboration between Vanderbilt Divinity School and The African American Pulpit, a leading ministry journal.
To explore The African American Lectionary, go to http://www.theafricanamericanlectionary.org/.
For more information call (615) 936-8453. For online registration, go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/rel_religion_register.htm.
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