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Many pastors and church leaders face the challenge of getting most of the congregants involved in some aspect of ministry. This thesis project focuses on the use of celebrative preaching as a homiletical design to address this challenge. It presents details of the project, the m…

The impetus and drive for my dissertation was three-fold: (1) My extensive professional and vocational proficiency as a Pastor and Preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; (2) My personal witness, experiences, and practice of Black Preaching's power to excite, inspire…

This dissertation closely reads the public rhetoric and performance of three monumental figures in black religious discourse - Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton – in order to trace how a personality-centered model of black public leadership has emerged and …