Description: Valuable not only for their sublime musical expression, the African American spirituals give us profound insights into the human condition and the Christian life. Many focus on an essential scene of the Christian drama: the coming of God as the child in Bethlehem and as the hope of the world and the liberator of God's oppressed people. In...
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Luke A. Powery is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Associate Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School.