Veracity and Verse
A Preacher's Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth
Published on 3. June 2025
Book
Hardback
214 pages
979-8-88983-241-6 (ISBN)
Description
A culled collection of writings by James Forbes, the first Black senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City. He broke barriers of Black leadership in mainline Christian denominations and brought preaching styles of the Black church to white pulpits. A triumphant story told in his own verse and documented narrative history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88983-241-6 (9798889832416)
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Person
James A. Forbes Jr. is senior minister emeritus of the Riverside Church in New York, the first African American to lead the congregation. After graduation from Howard University in 1957, he was denied acceptance to Duke University's Divinity School--informed that Blacks were not welcome. He completed his master of divinity at Union Theological Seminary and his doctor of ministry at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. He was an activist professor at Union and in the Riverside pulpit, and remains so today. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, near his birthplace, with his wife Bettye Franks Forbes and their son James A. Forbes III.