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For Black History Month, our “Black Church in Detroit” series examines Black history in the biblical context. Host Stephen Henderson talks with Dr. Theron Williams, president and founder of The Bible is Black History Institute, about African presence in the Bible. Dr. Williams, who is a Detroit native and pastor of Mt. Carmel Church in Indiana, has written a series of books on “The Bible is Black History.”
He explains how major scholars and historians have studied and written about the presence of people of African descent in the Bible, and DNA and genetic evidence have proven the connection. Dr. Williams discusses why it’s important to emphasize this information, and he talks about how he has also created books, activities and a curriculum for children to help them understand the major African presence in the Bible. He also discusses the impact of this information on his congregation and ministry.
Learn about Black presence in the Bible by checking out these titles:
The Bible is Black History
Dr. Theron Williams
Beyond Roots: In Search of Blacks in the Bible
Rev. William Dwight McKissick
Black Biblical Studies: Biblical and Theological Issues on the Black Presence in the Bible
Charles B. Copher
Blacks in the Bible: Vol. I: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture
James H. Warden Jr.
Black People in the Bible
Randolph Jackson
Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon
Nyasha Junior, Jeremy Schipper
Can a Cushite Change His Skin?
Rodney S. Sadler Jr.
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas C. Oden
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Esau McCaulley
Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible
Nyasha Junior
The African American Guide to the Bible
Dr. H.C. Felder
The African Presence in the Bible: Gospel Sermons Rooted in History
William Watley & Raquel St. Clair
The Black Biblical Heritage
Dr. John L. Johnson
The Black Man in the Old Testament and its World
Alfred G. Dunston Jr.
The Black Presence in the Bible
Walter A. McCray
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible
Allen Dwight Callahan
Troubling Biblical Waters
Cain Hope Felder
I am looking for a book that about 20 black theologians researched each year and published the book after researching information and finding the black people in the Bible. I bought it 20 years ago and gave it to my son and he does not have the book anymore. I have not been successful in finding it. The book store where I bought it is closed, Tabernacle Church. I believe it was the Bible. Dr. John W. Waters of Atlanta Georgia was one of the contributors. It showed many colored pictures of black people I thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Myrtha Grice