Theology and Ministry

Robert L. Kinast, Making Faith-Sense: Theological Reflection in Everyday Life. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, , 1999

Hermeneutics

Brad Braxton, No Longer Slaves. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Youth Ministry Initiatives

Donald Capps, The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995

Robert C. Dykstra. Counseling Troubled Youth. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. 1997.

Jawanza Kunjufu, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Series. Chicago: African American Images. 1995.

Black Church and Human Sexuality

Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse, by Martha Nussbaum, and Saul Olyan. 1998.
 In particular, the part on "African-American Churches".

Articles

        "Introduction:  Three Perspectives on Gays in African-American Ecclesiology and Religious Thought," by Lewis R. Gordon, pp. 171-177.

        "Sexual Orientation and Human Rights Discourse in the African-American Churches," by Cheryl J. Sanders, pp. 178-184.

        "Deadly Silence:  Reflections on Homosexuality and Human Rights," by Victor Anderson, pp. 185-200.

        "Sexual Orientation and the Language of Higher Law," by William D. Hart, pp. 201-211.