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Hutchinson, Demetra Keyanna-Michelle. "African American Female Clergy in Dual Clergy Marriage." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6586.

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Burgeoning evidence has shown rapid growth of licensed and ordained female clergy within the Protestant church. Consequently, dual clergy couples have also increased in number. Research has suggested that African American female clergy have experienced greater challenges than male clergy in leadership roles in the church, including social isolation, sexism, and glass-ceiling barriers. Female clergy are also disproportionately affected by mental and physical health complications including depression, obesity, and burnout. Guided by adult personal resilience theory and its tenets of determination, endurance, adaptability, and recuperability, this interpretive phenomenological study focused on exploring the lived experiences of 13 African American female clergy leaders married to male clergy leaders. African American female clergy, recruited through both purposeful and snowball sampling, through interviews shared their stories of living in a dual-clergy marriage. Using Colaizzi's seven-step process of qualitative analysis and coding, two major themes of Resolve and Resilience, and four sub-themes including Barriers to the Church, Multiple Roles, Health and Wellness, and Adaptation were identified. Findings from this research expand the current body of knowledge on leadership and gender roles in the Protestant church, including the need for a greater understanding of the experiences of female clergy in male-dominated congregational and ministerial spaces. Implications for social change include opening conversations regarding the unique experiences of African American female clergy, supporting awareness of the social, mental and physical challenges of female clergy, and engaging in larger conversations about equal access in all areas of church leadership.

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Patrick, John Michael. "The valued impact of advanced formal theological training on leadership development for the African-American pastor in the National Baptist Convention." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Matthews, C. Jay. "Towards developing a manual to train leaders in faith-based and community-based ministry through the Black Church in contemporary society." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Carpenter, Samuel Julius. "A survey of black Baptist church leadership practices for subsequent ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Bunch, Clarence. "Servant Leadership and African American Pastors." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1363005384.

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Goings, Carolyn Smith. "Racial Integration in One Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation: Intentionality and Reflection in Small Group." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1479350273590395.

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Bracey, Cynthia. "Spiritual Leadership: Achieving Positive Health Outcomes in African-American Christian Churches." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3431.

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In the United States, African-American residents are an underserved population with evidence of higher health disparities than those associated with any other race, contributing to escalating health care costs. Despite the absence of health promotion and wellness training, pastors in predominately Black churches accept the responsibility for addressing more than the spiritual needs of their church members. The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory research study was to explore the perspectives of African-American Christian pastors on giving health guidance and their lived experiences as health promotion advocates. A total of 10 African-American Christian pastors were voluntarily recruited from 3 southern U.S. states using both purposeful and theoretical sampling strategies. Interviewing was the main data collection method. Social cognitive theory along with grounded theory were used to examine the interactions based on participants' points of view, and inductive analysis was also used. The results indicated that pastors have knowledge of their congregational members' health challenges and goals and have achieved positive health outcomes. The pastors also agreed that seminary should incorporate more information on health and wellness into the curriculum. These findings suggest that pastors, who are faith-based resources outside of health care systems, need to be educated, equipped, guided, and groomed as health leaders to assist efforts to reduce or eliminate health care disparities. Members of the clergy, their church members, and surrounding community residents would all benefit from the knowledge, understanding, and development of skills to change their unhealthy lifestyle habits and effective self- management of chronic diseases to achieve positive health outcomes.

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Nettle, Willie J. "Mentoring for leadership development in an African American church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Redd, Harold R. "Leadership training for congregational transition a case study in an African-American church /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Harris, Michael J. "Accepting the Call and Overcoming the Challenges| Leadership Practices of African American Clergywomen." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13421423.

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<p> Clergy leadership is identified as an immensely challenging vocation. This study proposes that challenges African American clergywomen face are exacerbated due to the combination of their ethnicity and gender. Forces such as patriarchy and gender discrimination are explicated in this study and identified as major sources of oppression for African American women in clergy leadership. This study provides historical background by exploring gender arrangements both on the African continent and in the United States, to allow the reader to understand frustrations that African American clergywomen experience as they encounter myriad challenges to emerging and thriving in clergy leadership roles within the Black church setting. </p><p> Social science literature, leadership and management studies, Theological studies, and biblical accounts are provided to offer the researcher propositions, theories, philosophies, and frameworks that aid in providing perspective and understanding of the research topic. The origin, prominence, and role of the historic African American church is also discussed extensively in the study. The African American church has been instrumental in advancing the liberation of African Americans at large, but is also directly complicit in the challenges African American clergywomen experience. As such, this study seeks to identify leadership strategies and practices employed by African American clergywomen to overcome the myriad challenges in their leadership roles. Furthermore, this study highlights how African American women in clergy leadership measure their success. The study also spotlights recommendations and lessons African American clergywomen offer to others in similar leadership positions.</p><p>

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Thomas, Gregory E. "Historical and cultural significance of ordination as power and control within dually aligned African American Baptist churches in Massachusetts." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Peterson, Willie O. "A post-graduate core urban curriculum to fill the gap between seminary training and urban American ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Coles, Gregory E. "Developing ethical leadership in youth to reduce violence among them a resource for the church and society /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Reedus, Marion Donel. "Leadership and management in the black church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Scratcherd, George. "Ecclesiastical politics and the role of women in African-American Christianity, 1860-1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:120f3d76-27e5-4adf-ba8b-6feaaff1e5a7.

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This thesis seeks to offer new perspectives on the role of women in African-American Christian denominations in the United States in the period between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century. It situates the changes in the roles available to black women in their churches in the context of ecclesiastical politics. By offering explanations of the growth of black denominations in the South after the Civil War and the political alignments in the leadership of the churches, it seeks to offer more powerful explanations of differences in the treatment of women in distict denominations. It explores the distinct worship practices of African-American Christianity and reflects on their relationship to denominational structure and character, and gender issues. Education was central to the participation of women in African-American Christianity in the late nineteenth century, so the thesis discusses the growth of black colleges under the auspices of the black churches. Finally it also explores the complex relationship between domestic ideology, the politics of respectability, and female participation in the black churches.

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Crichton, Iain William. "Ghostwriting a tool for getting oral-urban church leaders in print /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Simpson, Earl C. "Establishing a small group ministry in the African American church through the empowerment of small group leaders." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Kinderman, Dennis J. "Intentional communities for lay leadership development in the black urban context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Ogletree, Evelyn 1954. "Voices of Four African American Female Clergy and Their Perceptions of Gender, Equity, and Leadership Styles in the African American Urban Church." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148281.

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to give voice to the experiences of African American female pastors of African American churches and their perceptions of gender and equity as it pertains to their role in the pastorate. This phenomenological study identified the lived experiences of each participant through her personal narrative, which reflects her path from birth to present. Participants’ experiences as a senior pastor provided a personal historical path of the journey of female pastors for a span of four decades. This dissertation shares the challenges, barriers, and support to female pastors. This study examined personal characteristics, acts of leadership, and acts of negotiating the system within the African American church. The participants’ ages ranged from 40-70+. The findings of this study indicated that there has been a slow change in the acceptance of female pastors. Female pastors have been a part of our culture since biblical times, but resistance is still present.

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Newsome-Camara, Imani-Sheila. "An Historical and Critical Analysis of Leadership Education of African American Protestant Clergy within University-Based Black Church Studies Programs." Thesis, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/3761.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to reflect on African American clergy leadership education at university-based seminaries in the United States. It examines the history of African American clergy leadership education and African American theological reflection that informs such educational programs. Qualitative data gathered from interviews of persons who have participated in African American clergy leadership education programs serve as a measure of program effectiveness by offering crucial information to African American clergy who serve both church and community. The conclusion of the dissertation offers recommendations for the development of programs for African American clergy leadership education at university-based seminaries.

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