Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition, Volume I

About

Andre E. Johnson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Film at the University of Memphis. He teaches classes in African American public address; rhetoric race and religion; media studies; interracial communication; homiletics; and hip hop studies. He is the author of No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (2020). Dr. Johnson is also Senior Pastor of Gifts of Life Ministries in Memphis Tennessee.Kimberly P. Johnson is Associate Professor in the Communication Studies concentration area at Tennessee State University. She brings to the Department of Communication her areas of specialization: political religious and African American rhetoric; rhetorical criticism; cultural criticism; and womanism. She is the author of The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit (2017). Dr. Johnson is also an Associate Minister at New Covenant Christian Church in Nashville Tennessee. Wallis C. Baxter III is the pastor of Second Baptist Church SW in District Heights Maryland. He is a 2009 graduate of Duke Divinity School with an M.Div. degree and a 2017 graduate of Howard University with a Ph.D. in African American literature. Dr. Baxters research interests include the shape of prophetic ministry from Reconstruction to today 19th-century African American literature and liberation ethics in Black and White America and Black identity and gentrification within capitalistic America. He is the author of You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet (2022).