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Book Review| November 01 2014
Spiritual Progressive Faith Formation
Sounding the Trumpet: How Churches Can Answer God's Call to Justice
by Berndt, Brooks; Alfred Smith, J.Sr.
A Pair of Docs Publishing
PETER GABEL
peter gabel is editor-at-large of Tikkun and the author of The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning and Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics, and Culture (available at quidprobooks.com and tikkun.org/store).
Tikkun (2014) 29 (4): 45–49.
PETER GABEL; Spiritual Progressive Faith Formation. Tikkun 1 November 2014; 29 (4): 45–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2810158
For forty years, J. Alfred Smith Sr. served as the senior pastor for the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, a church with a national reputation for its ministry of black empowerment and liberation. Anyone who has been in Rev. Smith's presence has likely been altered by the experience. He is a profound and eloquent person who carries within himself a joyful spiritual confidence coupled with a deep concern about the abiding presence of social injustice in our world. I would say that it is a relief to be around him because he affirms in his being the central message that we all long to hear — that hope and wisdom are reconcilable, that we can see the world exactly as it is with its suffering, pain, and injustice, and still feel with a full heart that we can transcend what is toward what ought to be.
Forces of Faith: Endurance, Flourishing, and the Queer Religious Subject
I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith
Political Spirituality: The Devils , Possession, and Truth-Telling
Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
A Spiritual Journey at Yale
Unhopeful but Not Hopeless Melancholic Interpretations of Progress and Freedom
Conscripts of Democracy The Alliance for Progress, Development, and the (Re)Formation of a Gendered Middle Class, 1958–1965
Racial Formation