Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities

by Robert M. Franklin

Book Overview

Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in the black struggle for freedom. Black families face a "crisis of commitment" evident in the rising rates of father absence, births to unmarried parents, divorce, and domestic abuse or relationship violence. Black churches face a "mission crisis" as they struggle to serve their upwardly mobile...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800638875
• ISBN13: 9780800638870
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book to read

I have read a lot of books, but this one start off with not just the problems. It speaks to the individual in ways that you can make change (it starts with yourself, family and then community. We must for the sake of generations rebuild restore the village.

Timely and in excellent condition

I received the book in a timely manner and in excellent condition as a new book.

Crisis in the Village

This is an excellent book and all ministers should read it and learn from it! We have problems in our communities. Here's some insight. We can not keep our head in the sand! We must restore our communities. It is up to us! The Church!

How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

To sing the songs of Zion for Babylonian amusement was offensive to the Jews so they hung their harps and so they did not sing the songs of Zion and so they began to forget Jerusalment. The issue facing the Jews was how to resist assimilation, how to sing the songs of the Lord in a strange land. Dr. Franklin's book is a courageous statement for community renewal for the African American community that also finds itself living in a strange land, these United States. The task before Christians is the same as it was for Jewish who have for millenias faced open hostility of the world. African Americans have faced hostility ever since a slave ship named Jesus brought them to the New World. The task is how to sing the Lord's song in this New World without forgetting the rich heritage of biblical faith that invites young minds into the world of miracle, a world of hope of deliverance. Dr. Franklin's book is a fresh challenge for Christians to renew the covenant of community that started at the foot of Sinai for a liberated people.