Black church leaders use new books to share history and hope

Black church leaders use new books to share history and hope

(RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper, you wouldn’t be blamed if you replaced it on the shelf and kept perusing. But the Rev. Boise Kimber’s new book about Black women in ministry, born as a Yale Divinity School master’s thesis, doesn’t suffer from its scholarly start: Kimber, president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., fills his book, “Breaking the Stained-glass Ceilin…