Trouble Don't Last Always: e-bog

"e;Racism will never end."e;"e;Drug dealing and gang banging will never stop."e;"e;I hope for God to come and take us away from all this because if things go on the way they are, there's not much hope for humankind."e;These are some of the comments from twenty African American teenagers coming of age in Chicago at the close of the 20th century. These comments raise challenging questions:- What expectations do African American youth hold concerning racial injustice?- What expectations do black youth hold about other issues that are important to them, such as violence?- How relevant is the black church to the issues that circumscribe the lives of urban black youth?- How is the black church instrumental in confronting racial injustice that black youth experience?- What signs of hope do black youth identify as being offered by the black church?- Can the church fashion black adolescent spirituality rooted in Christian hope and action?Parker seeks to answer these questions, critically examining African American adolescent spirituality and offering congregations a new theological framework for ministry with African American adolescents in the face of injustice and hopelessness. What results is the formation of a wholesome spirituality.