Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church

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This volume's contributors - dynamic and progressive African American church leaders - advocate theprophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and evangelismin support of community and economic development, ministerial and lay leadership, and enhancement of churchlife.

Among the writers are Charles G. Adams, Randall C. Bailey, James H. Cone, James A. Forbes, Jacquelyn Grant, OberyHendricks, Asa G. Hilliard, Dwight N. Hopkins, CecilMurray, and Gayraud Wilmore. All were presentersin 2004 at the first Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, established to reinvigorate the social justice agenda of America's black churches.