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Sankofa; Raising Up African-American Church Leaders The concept of SANKOFA is derived from King Adinkera of the Akan people of West Africa. SANKOFA is expressed in the Akan language as “se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenkyi.” Literally translated it means “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.” SANKOFA teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward.

Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated. Visually and symbolically SANKOFA is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg symbolizing the future in its mouth. Become a Transformative Leader in Your Community Sankofa Institute programs provide opportunities for intellectual, professional, and inspirational development of transformative leadership. Resources, partnership, and cultural engagement enhance classes, lectures, symposia, worship conferences, workshops, internships and practical field education, and support our programming across North America, and include sister and brother communities from Africa. Connect with the Leading Minds in Black Church Studies In recognition of the web of connections and faith traditions represented in the African American Christian community, the Institute is committed to partnering with other academic and cultural institutions for our mutual benefit and for the most effective and efficient way to reach the programmatic goals of our students and the mission of the Oblate School of Theology. Become a Sankofa Scholar The Sankofa Institute for African American Pastoral Leadership is committed to developing and supporting pastoral leaders, men and women of all races and backgrounds, for the African American Christian community within the context of the universal Christian mission of proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Institute aims to foster within Church leaders an understanding and appreciation of African Americans’ contributions to the entirety of Christian faith, life, and witness in North America.

The Sankofa Institute will provide opportunities for the intellectual, professional, and inspirational development of transformational leadership within the African American community, offered through classes, lectures, symposia, worship, leadership workshops, internships and practical field education, as well as social outreach and cultural celebrations. The interdisciplinary categories specific to the Sankofa Institute include: • • Black Church History • Black Biblical Studies • Black Theologies (including Black liberation theologies and womanist theologies) • Sociology of Black Religion • Contemporary Issues in the Black Church and society • African American Christian Social Ethics • African American Christian Education • Black Church Worship and Nurture • Black Preaching • Social Justice Degree Programs • • • • • • •.

Dwight Webster History of the Black Church: Black Worship and Nurture; Black Preaching (New Orleans, adjunct faculty at Xavier’s Institute for Black Catholic Studies (IBCS)) Dr. Stephen Reid Black Biblical Hermeneutics (Baylor, Truett Divinity; adjunct faculty at Xavier’s IBCS) Dr. Diana Hayes Black Theology; Liberation Theologies, African American Spirituality, Womanist Theology (Emeritus, Georgetown University, DC; adjunct faculty at Xavier’s IBCS) Dr. Shawnee Marie Daniels-Sykes Black Ethics; Medical Ethics (Mt. Mary University, Milwaukee, WI; adjunct faculty at Xavier’s IBCS) Rev. Alfred Smith, Sr. Black Preaching, Black Church, Leadership Development (Oakland, CA; esteemed faculty GTU/American Baptist Seminary of the West) Rev.

Michael Battle Black Church; African American Spirituality (Peace Institute; regular speaker at OST on Bantu Spirituality) Rev. Cara mempercepat download di pc. Sharon Grant Black Church History, Methodist History, Polity, and Doctrine (Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Hood Theological Seminary) Rev. Dwight Hopkins Black Theology, contemporary models of theology, liberation Theologies, and East-West cross-cultural comparisons (Professor of Theology and Director of MA Studies in the University of Chicago Divinity School, adjunct faculty Xavier’s IBCS) Rev.

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan Womanist Theology, Social Justice, Contemporary Issues (Professor of Religion at Shaw University Divinity School, Raleigh, NC).