says, “Their very belief that a broken people could be uplifted was in a sense revolutionary, because it said that Blacks had the potential to live in the society as equals rather than subordinates.”1 This uplifting message was indeed a form of liberation preaching that continues to be heard in the black church. This kind of preaching is what I heard as a child at Union Grove Baptist Church and Shiloh Baptist Church in Chesterfield, Virginia. When I was baptized in 1963 at the age of eleven by Rev.