For the Souls of Black Folks
Reimagining Black Preaching for Twenty-First-Century Liberation
by Cari Jackson
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Cari Jackson is the founding director of Center of Spiritual Light, which provides interspiritual resources for individual and organizational excellence. She is an advocate for social justice and human rights across the world. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, she has served as pastor of congregations in three different Christian denominations and has worked ecumenically across religious and spiritual traditions. Prior to professional ministry, Dr. Cari had an extensive career in leadership coaching, staff development, management training, organization development, and mediation in business and community organizations. She is the author of five books, including Love Like You've Never Been Hurt, and soon-to-be released Still Got Game. Her degrees include a PhD in Christian Social Ethics, MDiv, and BA in Psychology and Sociology.
"This book asks questions about how black preachers utilize their power that few religion scholars or churchgoers have dared to ask. It contributes a uniquely and insistently anti-racist approach to clergy ethics, especially the coercive pulpit practices of some preachers. Jackson requires her readers to think deeply and practically about a healthier new way forward."
--Traci C. West, author of Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter