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.
We wrap up our four-week series examining the four different kinds of love in the Bible. This week we focused on agape: the love...
Mary Magdalene was a woman who is mentioned several times in the New Testament of the Bible. She is believed to have been a...
Jesus has called each of us as believers to teach others as we fulfill the Great Commission. How should we go about teaching? Perhaps...
