Workshop Series Features

How it works and the benefits you will find.

  • How it Works

    As a non-credit course, there are no tests or grades, just suggested readings. Each session includes pre-recorded videos providing a wealth of insight, as well as additional content and links. This course is developed in partnership with the Institute for Black Church Studies at BSK.

  • What's Included

    America is engaged in a moral struggle. As we continue to struggle with the covid pandemic, systemic racism, toxic politics, grinding poverty, misinformation on social media, and declining churches, this course explores the next steps for you and your church.

  • Experienced Leaders

    Dr. Lewis Brogdon directs the Institute for Black Church Studies at BSK. He brings a rich background of research into Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as the dynamics of race and religion in America. See his full bio below.

Course curriculum

  1. 1
  2. 2

    • The Fight for the Soul of America

    • Editorial

    • Questions for Personal Reflection and Small Group Discussion
  3. 3

    • Dr. King’s Dream Turned Nightmare and the Fracturing of America

    • America on the Brink Chapters 1 and 2

    • Questions for Personal Reflection and Small Group Discussion
  4. 4

    • Dreams, Nightmares, and Hopes for Tomorrow

    • America on the Brink Chapter 3

    • Questions for Personal Reflection and Small Group Discussion
  5. 5

    • Brogdon's 2020 WCLU Interview

    • America on the Brink Chapter 4

    • Questions for Personal reflection and Small Group Discussion
  6. 6

    • Group Temptation and Evil

    • America on the Brink Chapters 5 and 6

    • Questions for Personal reflection and Small Group Discussion
  7. 7

    • America on the Brink Chapters 7 and 8

    • Resources for Further Study

Instructor

Associate Professor of Preaching and Black Church Studies, Director of the Institute for Black Church Studies

Dr. Lewis Brogdon

Dr. Lewis Brogdon serves as Associate Professor at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (BSK) as well as the Institute for Black Church Studies at BSK. He has served in numerous positions in undergraduate and graduate institutions as a professor – Assistant Professor of New Testament and Black Church Studies at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary and Religion and Biblical Studies at Claflin University, and an Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Bluefield College. He also served those institutions as an administrator – the founding director of Louisville Presbyterian Seminary’s Black Church Studies Program, Provost at Simmons College of Kentucky, and Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Research at Bluefield College. Brogdon is the author of several books including A Companion to Philemon (Cascade 2018), The Spirituality of Black Preaching (Seymour Press 2016), and others. A popular preacher, lecturer, and panelist he has lectured at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, the Interdenominational Theological Center, the University of Chicago Divinity School, Claflin University, and Radford University on nihilism in black America. He was the keynote speaker at a city-wide Martin Luther King dinner in Dayton OH, and received an invitation to the White House in 2014. Brogdon is an ordained minister of twenty-six years and has pastored churches in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.