Bøger af Fred Smith

American Chemical Society Monograph Series, No. 141.

A radio host scrutinizes her conscience when a listener requests a peculiar song with a deadly history. Two strangers rely on each other for their safety and survival while hiding in a closet during a school shooting.Used car salesman questions whether his success fuels his neighborhood's cycle of poverty.A klansman in the late 1960s reexamines his beliefs after meeting a visitor with ideas for an integrated future.The Closet introduces ten new emotional short stories with compelling characters vying for glory, atonement, or redemption any way they can find it.Sometimes brooding, often heart-rending, always impassioned, The Closet's stories offer a glimpse into the American struggle and reveal truths we don't always expect-or admit.

Four high school students. Once crime. Someone has to pay. Someone has to talk. Lies, deception and manipulation run rampant during an afternoon interrogation hellbent on discovering who is the expendable culprit in this one act play by author Fred Smith.

Miami. 1992. Johnette Derringer rode out Hurricane Andrew at ground zero in Homestead, Florida. Her town and high school destroyed, Johnette and hundreds of other scholastic refugees head north to attend Root High in a swanky area of Miami less-affected by the storm. At Root, Johnette embarks on a documentary film project about student life at what's become the largest and most diverse public high school in Miami in the wake of the most destructive hurricane to make landfall in US history. Armed with a Sony Handycam, Johnette embeds herself with the school's most colorful characters, each with a troubled past rooted in Miami's tumultuous history. Through her camera's lens, Johnette realizes the underlying strife that binds Root's students and sees the spark that could set the school ablaze with anarchy.The question she keeps asking herself is can the imminent uprising be quelled before it turns deadly?

Black Religious Experience is an examination of the role Christian education has played in the African American community, as seen in the work of one of its greatest interpreters, Grant Shockley. In 1903, W. E. B. DuBois coined the term "double consciousness" to refer to the fact that African Americans always view the world through two lenses. First, they see it from their own perspectives as members of an oppressed community, living out the consequences of a particular history. Second, they perceive life from the point of view of a dominant culture that seeks to impose on African Americans its own false understanding of their status and worth. Christian educators working in the African American community have often drawn on this idea as they seek to apply the gospel to the spiritual formation of members of that community. The heart of the work of Grant Shockley, the preeminent African American religious educator of the twentieth century, was combating the negative attitudes and perspectives that the larger society would dictate to African Americans, while providing positive and powerful images of their self-worth drawn from the Christian story. Charles R. Foster and Fred Smith, friends and colleagues of Shockley, seek in this book to interpret the significance of his work for Christian education, both in the African American community and beyond it, for the twenty-first century. They draw on personal encounters as well as Shockley's written and published materials to indicate how this seminal thinker continues to speak to the need for faith formation in Christian congregations today.