It is our great honor to host Rev. Dr. Winterbourne Harrison-Jones, Senior Pastor of Witherspoon Presbyterian Church as our guest pastor from January 14-February 18th. This is a Pastor's Book Study you will not want to miss.
He will be discussing: The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues.
Witherspoon Presbyterian will also be hosting a movie night which shows the documentary related to this book. There will also be a meal starting at 5:30 and the documentary to follow at 6:30. To register for that please click on the link. To see all actives that we will be hosting with the Witherspoon Presbyterian click on this link: