Anthologies of African American Writing

Keeping the Faith: African American Sermons of Liberation

"Keeping the Faith: African American Sermons of Liberation" . Ed. James Haskins. New York: Welcome Rain, 2002. 224 pp. + 1 audio disc.

[Text]. Introduction / by Maya Angelou ; A question out of darkness / Gardner C. Taylor ; The sermon / C.C. Lovelace ; Lock-jaw lions : Daniel in the lion's den / Wyatt Tee Walker ; Faith in a foreign land / Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. ; Holding on to your song / W. Franklyn Richardson II ; A Thanksgiving sermon / Absolom Jones ; Living with change / Gardner C. Taylor ; Wisdom in work / Carol Ann North ; Prayer power : Jesus on the mainline / Wyatt Tee Walker ; Calling for the order of the day / Katie G. Cannon ; The eagle stirreth her nest / C.L. Franklin ; A good soldier ; a eulogy of Clarence Lavaughn (C.L.) Franklin / Jasper Williams, Jr. ; The road that leads to wholeness / W. Franklyn Richardson II ; The still small voice of calm / Frederick Boyd Williams ; Tributes to genius : eulogy of Howard Thurman / Lerone Bennett, Jr., Jesse Jackson and Vernon Jordan ; Go down, death / James Weldon Johnson ; Transformed noncomformist / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Eulogy of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. : a warrior for justice / Samuel Dewitt Proctor ; Keep the faith baby! / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.[sound disc]. Go down, death / James Weldon Johnson (read by James Earl Jones) ; A broken life / Jeremiah Wright ; The eagle stirreth her nest / C.L. Franklin ; We must work / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Jesus is the centerpiece of our faith / Gardner C. Taylor ; Choose ye this day / Wyatt Tee Walker ; What do the ashes say? / W. Franklyn Richardson II ; Keep the faith baby! / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ; Living the life of jubilee / Katie G. Cannon ; A good soldier : a eulogy of C.L. Franklin / Jasper Williams, Jr.

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