About Harold Dean Trulear
The Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear is the pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Twin Oaks, Pa. He has served as a professor at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and is currently an associate professor at Howard University Divinity School in Washington, D.C. Trulear also served as Visiting Professor of Urban Ministry and Public Policy at Drew University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1983. He is a member of the faculty of the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia and graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., where he served as a scholar in the Leadership Center. He has published more than 60 monographs, articles, essays, sermons and reviews, including “Black Worship and the Afro-American Story,” “George Kelsey: Unsung Hero,” “The African American Church and Welfare Reform” and “Faith Based Initiatives with High Risk Youth.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following lecture was presented at Grove City College on Feb. 19, 2004, as part of the Bible and American Society Lecture Series. Introduction Twelve years ago, a constitutional law professor by the name of Stephen Carter from Yale … Continue reading
