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Schedule of Events
Friday, March 28 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
National Black Church Studies Forum and Black Church Consultation
Friendship-West Baptist Church · 2020 W. Wheatland Ave. · Dallas, TX 75232
Admission fee is $15.
9:00 a.m. Onsite Registration
11:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:15 a.m. Young, Gifted, and Black: The Church and Hip-Hop Culture
12:15 p.m. Women’s Power to Witness in Spite of...: Leadership and
Mentoring in the Black Church
1:00 p.m. Luncheon for students, Ministers of Fort Worth, Panelists/Scholars
2:00 p.m. With Liberty and Justice for All?: The Black Church’s Response
to the Prison Industrial – Complex
2:45 p.m. Passing It On: Reuniting the Black Family
3:30 p.m. Serving One Another in Love: The Black Church and Sexuality
4:15 p.m. Study War No More: The Black Church, Peace, and Patriotism
5:00 p.m. By Whose Authority?: The Cost of the Black Church Vote
5:45 p.m. Prophets or Profits?: Defining God’s Favor
6:30 p.m. Adjourn
Saturday, March 29th | 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
State of the Black Church Summit
Luncheon Panel Discussion and
Community Feedback Session
Paul Quinn College
3837 Simpson Stuart Road
Dallas, Texas 75241
10:00 a.m. Registration
11:00 a.m. Doors Open
Panelists of scholars, church members, community residents
and activists will be:
Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton
The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Rev. Dr. Teresa Fry-Brown
Associate Professor of Homiletics
Candler School of Theology - Emory University
Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III
Senior Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock
Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Atlanta, Georgia
Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems
Moderator: Dr. Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Brite Divinity School
Saturday, 6:30 PM
Reception and Award Banquet
(formal attire)
Friendship-West Baptist Church · 2020 W. Wheatland Ave. · Dallas, TX 75232
6:30 PM Reception
7:00 PM Dinner and Musical Interlude
Keynote Address, Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton
Awards Presentation
