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Johnson and Thompson have given all of us tools and strategies to enhance our preaching repertoires for years to come. Most preaching texts published in North America have been written by white people with white preaching contexts in mind. Johnson highlights the preaching of Dr. Claudette Copeland in the sermon entitled, "What Shall We Do for Our Sister?" Preachers and teachers of preaching are always searching for new, creative and innovative approaches to sermon development. [Extracted from the article]

By Dietrich Jung and Kirstine Sinclair: Brill: Leiden, 2020 The title of the book by Dietrich Jung and Kirstine Sinclair is intriguing in many ways as it provides a synoptic examination of Muslim modernity/modernities in the contemporary world. In this respect, the authors look at contemporary Muslim subjectivities, modern practices and expressions based on lived religious traditions across the Muslim world. [Extracted from the article]

Swinton's thick description of these three mental health challenges is the heart of Parts III, IV, and V. Prior to this in Part II, which is a single chapter, Swinton offers thick description of how individuals with mental health challenges experience diagnosis. John Swinton, Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges, Grand Rapids (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) 2020, 245 pp. [Extracted from the article]

Racism is more often than not the focus of crucial assessments of Evangelicalism but Walker-Barnes traces the historical roots of racism in the development of the United States. Walker-Barnes carefully and painstakingly exposes the myths, from the "post-racial" wish, to racism can be undone or overturned through personal relationships, to the belief that feeling badly about racism is an effective strategy for eradicating it. Walker-Barnes turns to I The Color Purple i and the relationships that shaped Celie's life beginning with God, her stepfather Alphonso who repeatedly rapes her as child, Albert her abusing husband, and Shug the woman Celie loves and trusts. [Extracted from the article]

Cody J. Sanders, Christianity, LGBTQ Suicide, and the Souls of Queer Folk (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), 2020, 141 pp., ISBN 978-1-79-360609-9, $ 90.00. It is perhaps pastoral care's particular imperative to bring theological narrative to the center of our work in the care of souls. While telling the stories is perhaps compelling enough, Sanders also intends to move the field of pastoral care toward more life-giving practices specifically through a revision of its "care of souls" tradition (106). [Extracted from the article]