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A time to speak : how Black pastors can respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic / Marvin A. McMickle.

Title
A time to speak : how Black pastors can respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic / Marvin A. McMickle.
Author
McMickle, Marvin Andrew.
Publication
Cleveland : Pilgrim Press, c2008.

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xvi, 144 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
A Time to Speak, organized around the themes found in Ecclesiastes 3, addresses and dismantles some of the arguments rooted in a less than thorough analysis of the Bible that have been used to prevent many black pastors and worshipers in black churches from getting involved with people who are either infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. McMickle asserts it is time for black pastors and their worshipers to recognize that HIV/AIDS is no longer a disease that is isolated and limited to gay, white males. It has become the leading cause of death among black women ages 25 - 34. Additionally, it is spreading among black teens who experiment at earlier and earlier ages with behaviors that put them at risk. Further, senior citizens are contracting the disease at an alarming rate when they become sexually active with new partners following the death of a long-term spouse or after a divorce.
Subject
  • AIDS (Disease) > Christianity
  • AIDS (Disease) > Pastoral counseling of
  • African American churches
  • African American clergy
  • Church work with African Americans
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-144).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A time for war : the Black church and the global fight against HIV/AIDS -- A time to speak : HIV/AIDS is our problem in the Black church -- A time to embrace : the Black church must respond to HIV/AIDS -- A time to tear down : a biblical and theological methodology for addressing HIV/AIDS -- A time to build up : using the Bible in support of an HIV/AIDS ministry-a ministry to the infected and the affected -- A time to plant : the story of how an HIV/AIDS ministry began.
ISBN
  • 9780829818031 (alk. paper)
  • 0829818030 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008011412
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library