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NBPC receives a percentage of the sale for each copy of the book.  We are grateful to Rev. Dr. Gayraud Wilmore (the author) for this special gift to the Caucus and encourage you to order a copy.

To Order: Click here to send Email 
     Price: $12.00 (includes shipping)

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All-Black Governing Bodies is the History and Contributions of All-Black Governing Bodies in the Predecessor Denominations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). It was published with the approval of the 205th General Assembly (1993).  (2011 online publication, updated in 2012 with corrected identification of persons in cover photo)

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In this book,  Cleophus J. LaRue offers his insights into what makes for great preaching.  This book is filled with many telling anecdotes.  He recognizes that while great preaching comes from somewhere, it also must go somewhere, so preachers need to use the most artful language to send the Word on its journey.

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by Cheryl A Kirk-Duggan & Marlon Hall.   After looking at Hip Hop’s socio-historical context including its African roots, Wake Up shows how Hip Hop has come to embody the worldview of growing numbers of youth and young adults in today’s church...

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The New Jim Crow - reviews American racial history from the colonies to the Clinton administration; show we have not ended the racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it. Looks at Jim Crow and legal racial segregation being replaced by mass incarceration as a system of social control. (More African Americans are under correctional control today... than were enslaved in 1850). by Michelle Alexander

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The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
explores the cross and the lynching tree, the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community and their interconnection. 

Book of Confessions

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This book is Part I of the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), contains the historical statements of what we as a church believe.




Book of Order

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This book is Part II of the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and contains the Foundations of Presbyterian Polity, the Form of Government, the Directory for Worship, and the Rules of Discipline.  Additional information is provided with the inclusion of Received Ecumenical Statements of Guidance, Articles of Agreement, and material on the seal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).


        The Periscopes
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Periscope 1 
Black  Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today  and  Tomorrow  - 175 years of ministry  1807-1982             Study Guide
 
Periscope 2
Black Presbyterianism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  - 175  years of ministry  1807-1982             Study Guide

Periscope 3
African-American  Presbyterianism Preparing for the 21st Century 185 years of ministry 1807-1992

Periscope 4
African  American Presbyterians Living in the 21st Century Bread throughs & Challenges 197 years of ministry 1807 - 2004



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THE Racial Ethnic Torch is published 3 times a year.
Click to access copies.
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Christians and the Color Line examines the multi-faceted entanglement of race and religion in the United States. It takes a look at historical and contemporary examples of race within religion, loopholes at the problem of race in the Christian congregations and in American society.

Click to read Sterling Morse (coordinator of Cross Cultural Ministries of the PC(USA) Mission Agency) Book Review, written in the Presbyterian Outlook, (Jan. 2014)

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