Yea, Lord! Moving with the Spirit is a
searching perceptive examination of the fifty years of Dr. Mitchell’s service as preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ministry and a scholar in the church and university.
About the author
ABOUT
Mozella Mitchell
She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from LeMoyne College, Memphis; a master’s degree in English from the University of Michigan; a master’s degree in religious studies from Colgate Rochester Divinity School;
and a doctorate degree in religion and literature from Emory University.
About the book
ABOUT
Yea, Lord!
MOVING WITH THE SPIRIT
FIFTY YEARS A MINISTER AND A SCHOLAR TO THE GLORY OF GOD
This memoir is a searching perceptive examination of the author’s 50 years of service as a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ministry and a scholar in the church and university. It is about how she was led into this dual profession, how she survived in it as a black woman, how social movements and changes in society impacted her life and ambitions, and most of all, how God was always working in her life over more than eight decades, enabling her to achieve his purposes for her life.
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Barbara Bamberger Scott
, US Review
"And from my perspective, life is theology and theology is life whichever way you cut it."
The author's life has been blessed by her singular talents and her religious convictions. Growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, she was one of thirteen children and the first of her brood to finish high school. She would go on to complete college and later attain both a master's degree and a doctorate. The chain of events that led to her successes has its beginnings in the uproar of the mid-1960s civil rights movement. A college student during the early rumblings of that era, she had an awakening when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in her home city. King's life and murder provoked her to join in his struggle, sustained by her connection to the A.M.E. Zion Church, with its legendary members Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. She began to work with those demanding grassroots change as civil rights issues escalated to the critical stage of black power and pride....
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