The Haymanot Journal is the official publication of the Society of Gospel Haymanot (SGH), an academic community of Black scholars of biblical, theological, and religious studies. SGH exists to provide a space for Black theological scholars for support, partnership, and the production of research grounded in biblical orthodoxy, liberative justice, and Afrocentricity. The consortium of SGH operates as an extension of the Meachum School of Haymanot (MSH), a biblical, Afrocentric school of higher theological education.
Includes critical essays by Vince L. Bantu, Kenneth J. Reid, Gregory W. Lee, Leon Harris, Preston and Charonda Boone, Melanie Taylor, Michael Schultz, and Watson Jones III. Please visit www.meachum.org.
Table of Content
1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Vince L. Bantu & Jacqueline Dyer
Sankofa
Umfundi: Nicholas Rowe
2. ‘Daughters of the Kisse: The Presence of Foreigners in Christian Nubia’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vince L. Bantu
Haymanot
Umfundi: Vincent Bacote
3. ‘A Biblical-Theological Case for Systemic Sin’. . . . . . . . . 17
Kenneth J. Reid
4. ‘Racial Minorities and the Question of Christian Unity’. . . .39
Gregory W. Lee
5. ‘These Black Dry Bones Will Live Again: A Pneumatological Ideation of the Black Church’s Liberation from Social Death’.50
Leon Harris
Ujamaa
Umfundi: Lori Banfield
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6. ‘Black Marriage as Social Justice’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Preston and Charonda Boone
7. ‘Developing a Pastoral Response to Racial Trauma’. . . . . .82
Melanie Taylor
8. ‘The Haymanot of the Metaverse’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Michael Schultz
9. ‘Is There a Word From the Lord? A Black Ecclesial Orthodox Theology of Preaching’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Watson Jones III
About the author
DR. JACQUELINE DYER is the Director of the Doctor of Social Work Program and Associate Professor of Practice at Simmons University’s School of Social Work. As a social worker for more than 25 years, she has worked in direct mental health counseling practice, community outreach and advocacy, program development and leadership, and in academia. Her research and scholarly interests include clergy compassion fatigue, historical trauma, and intimate partner violence in faith communities. She has served as a clinical supervisor in secular and Christian agencies and as a volunteer facilitator for a Christian domestic violence support group. She presents professionally and in the community on the intersections of mental health and faith and maintains a community-based private practice. She has taught at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and in the social work programs at Eastern Nazarene College, Wheelock College, and Salem State University. She tells people she was born a social worker and loves to teach.