Walter Earl Fluker

Black Suffering

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“At once, with story-telling rich in experience; prose that is sermonic in tone; and arguments steeped in philosophical, theological, biblical analysis and depth, James Harris offers us a view of black suffering that is more than data and cognitive mapping. He uncovers the evil of the experience of black suffering amidst the silences that point to something else: a way to a hidden hope imprisoned by a subjugated consciousness that we must liberate from the white imaginary that holds the key to the prison door.”

Howard Thurman and the Disinherited

History & Biography

“Paul Harvey’s timely and well-documented work, Howard Thurman and the Disinherited, is the first critical biography on this renowned religious thinker and American prophet. Harvey masterfully weaves together Thurman’s distinctive interpretation of mysticism and social action, his experimentation with ecclesiology as a center for worship, and his prophetic insight and analysis of democracy as an unfinished spiritual and ethical project. Academic, religious, and general readers alike will find the book accessible and helpful in learning more about this still-enigmatic figure in American history and culture.”

Understanding and Transforming the Black Church

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"Pinn is required reading in every Black Church Studies department and theological curriculum that seeks self-understanding, healing, and transformation; and an indispensable interlocutor in the broader public conversation about the American dilemma and its democratic possibilities.”