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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 progressiveAfrican 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 ofAmerica's black churches.
Frederick D. Haynes III is Senior Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and Executive Secretary of the Evangelism Board of the National Baptist Convention. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago. Among his books is Africans Who Shaped Our Faith (1995). Iva E. Carruthers is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. She is the author of The Church and Reparations (2001).
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