First Assignment :
Write a reflection that articulates how Christians should respond to questions of injustice in the world today regardless of culture, creed, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Please. incorporate the “Letters to a Birmingham Jail”.
Second Assignment:
Assess the role that Christianity played in shaping the Emancipation experience, and explain how churches informed the political and economic opportunities available to newly freed slaves?
Discussion Resources
Carter Woodson: The History of the Negro Church, Chapter 10, pp. 202-247Links to an external site.
J.A. Whitted: A History of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina: Chapter II The Work of the Northern Societies for the Colored Baptists of North Carolina, pp. 18 â 33Links to an external site.
George Bragg: History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church: pp. 136 â 142Links to an external site.