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Blurb: Anne Streaty Wimberly proposes a method for educating Christians-the story-linking process. In Soul Stories: African American Christian Education, she applies it specifically to the life experiences, history, and evolving liberation of African American Christians who are encouraged to see the connection between biblical stories, their own personal stories, and the stories of important African Americans in history.
Christian education in African American contexts is strengthened by reclaiming the story-linking method that emerged naturally in the African American heritage. Soul Stories is "an invitation for teachers and leaders to engage in the process of story-linking and, in turn, for them to guide participants in Christian education settings in the same process." Christian educators, pastors, and seminarians will hear the voices of African American Christians clearly in the case studies provided by the author.
Soul Stories provides:
- practical models for teaching adults
- analysis of what motivates people toward Christian education
• vira links berween personal experience, biblical experience,
and the experience of famous and influential African
Americans
- an important contribution to the understanding of the unique needs of the African American Christian community
- a supplemental text in Christian education courses for
seminaries and the local church
ANNE STREATY WIMBERLY is Associate Professor of Christian Education and Church Music at the Interdenominational
Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
The genius of this book is its recovery of the story method in teaching, relating it to an African American heritage and grounding it in a biblical hermeneuric.... It has indicared a new paradigm.
- Grant S. Shockley, from the Foreword