to the Spiritual Growth Study on Exodus: The Journey to Freedom.
Christine Keels and the Rev. Bernard Keels have provided a deep
river of content to draw us through the historical journey of
African American Methodists in the United States. For these
modern-day successors of the ancient Hebrews whom Moses led out
of slavery in Egypt, there is a river between their desert
wandering and the promised land; it is the river Jordan, and
those traveling to the promised land have to go through it. can
be read as an ancient history of the Hebrews, showing the power
of our God, whom we worship in church each Sunday. This is
important. But the United States has its own Exodus story to
tell, and we have not crossed over Jordan yet. Many generations
have passed since our Civil War, and many have forgotten the
story of how freedom was won for an enslaved people in this
country. There is no annual commemoration like that of the
Jewish Passover. No bread is broken, no wine is spilled, and no
story is told about why "this nig