Thinking Outside the Box
On Race, Faith and Life
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
212 pages
978-1-906190-73-6 (ISBN)
Description
Thinking Outside the Box is a collection of articles, lectures, talks, sermons and presentations that emerge from Bishop Dr Joe Aldred's work as a Black male Christian, a bishop in a Pentecostal church, an ecumenist with Churches Together, a broadcaster, writer, public speaker, and social commentator. His personal reflections address such themes as race, the Bible, the Black Church, progress, ecumenism, politics, preaching, multiculturalism, Christmas, money, leadership, destiny and parenting.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 - Race
- Chapter 1 Black I certainly am
- Chapter 2 Faith and race
- Chapter 3 Race and progress
- Chapter 4 Racism awareness
- Chapter 5 Rethinking racism in the church
- Chapter 6 The human face of God
- Chapter 7 Responding to the legacy of the slave trade
- Part 2 - Bible
- Chapter 8 Recognising the 400th anniversary of the KJV
- Part 3 - Black Church
- Chapter 9 Black churches: contributing to cohesion or polarisation?
- Chapter 10 The Windrush - mission and the aftermath
- Chapter 11 Christians as salt and light in the world
- Part 4 - Progress
- Chapter 12 Together we can
- Chapter 13 Confronting challenges
- Chapter 14 Black theology - continuity and change
- Part 5 - Ecumenism
- Chapter 15 One but how?
- Chapter 16 Unity with a purpose
- Chapter 17 The ecumenical significance of Pentecostalism
- Chapter 18 Speaking with one tongue
- Part 6 - Politics
- Chapter 19 The church and political engagement
- Part 7 - Preaching
- Chapter 20 Preaching today in the Black Pentecostal tradition
- Part 8 - Multiculturalism
- Chapter 21 Multiculturalism is dead - long live multiculturalism
- Part 9 - Christmas
- Chapter 22 God's greatest gift
- Part 10 - Money
- Chapter 23 The sin of simony - a threat to the poor and vulnerable
- Part 11 - Leadership
- Chapter 24 Lessons from Esther
- Chapter 25 The big picture
- Part 12 - Destiny
- Chapter 26 Decision determines destiny
- Part 13 - Parenting
- Chapter 27 It's all in the parenting - stupid!
- Select Bibliography
