Description: In Afro-Christian Convention, the holy stream of African spirituality that flowed across the Atlantic Ocean, up into the tidewaters of Virginia in 1619, the same stream that overflowed into the worship and work of the United Church of Christ, is celebrated and given its long-overdue place in the canon of UCC history.
Brief description: Yvonne V. Delk has served for sixty years as an educator, preacher, organizer, and prophetic voice leading the fight for human and civil rights.
Review Quotes: After the Civil War, Afro-Christians began to intentionally preserve their character and strengthen their identity. I was impressed by the zeal of Afro-Christians and, in the 1980s, encouraged Percel O. Alston, a UCC leader grounded in Afro-Christian history, to preserve the story of how the Afro-Christian Convention had been born. This new book about that convention as a fifth foundational stream of the United Church of Christ is an important hidden history and honors Alston's work. --Barbara Brown Zikmund, author of Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ (Vols. 1 & 2)