The spiritual is a combination of African musical traditions and European Christian hymns. They are meditations on the triumph of the metaphysical over the physical realities of slavery. They attempt to answer profound questions: What happens to an enslaved person when she dies? What does it mean if her life has been so denigrated on earth? What does freedom feel like if your only access to it is in your imagination? What miracles of God are needed to get free?
Today’s Top Ten List explores “Messages – Explicit in Implied – in Some African American Spirituals.” Scriptures referenced include Joshua 3; Jeremiah 8; Jeremiah 46:11; Isaiah 2:4; and Joshua 6.
In both the Old and New Testament, we see feminine imagery used to describe the love, care, and intervention of God in our lives....
The authority to act in God’s name is a delegated power, not an independent right. As seen in the Great Commission, Jesus emphasizes that...
The early chapters of Genesis provide not only an account of creation and the fall but also a window into the development of human...
