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Soul Care in African American Practice

  1. Lesson One
    Introduction
    5 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. Lesson Two
    Prayer and Lectio Divina in African American Practice
    9 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Spiritual Direction and Soul Care in African American Practice
    9 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    Soul Care in the Civil Rights Movement
    9 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  5. Lesson Five
    Detachment and Attachment in the African American Practice
    9 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  6. Lesson Six
    Prayer in the African American Practice
    8 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  7. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    4 Activities
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In this lesson, you learned how to:

  1. Describe the importance of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective.
  2. Explain how slavery affected the way spirituality looks for African Americans.
  3. Describe the historical impact of African American spiritual traditions.

Continue to Lesson 2: Prayer and Lectio Divina in African American Practice to explore these spiritual disciplines through the lives of Dr. Frederick Douglass and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.