
Warriors and Angels
Shelley McIntosh

Dr. Shelley McIntosh earned her doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston. Her research and studies have focused on the social, spiritual, and academic development of Black children; the spiritual voices of preservice teachers and their responses to state certification tests; the diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds of Black children; and biblical history. She has served as a bishop and cardinal, national youth director, professor of urban education, elementary school teacher, urban school principal, and English language arts coach.

Shelley McIntosh

Shelley McIntosh
These days are filled with social unrest. Lack of compassion from elected officials, police brutality, unjust laws that create poverty through minimal wages but soaring profits for capitalists, benign neglect of blighted neighborhoods, and crime within the cities and in governments create a landscape of oppression that directly diminishes the quality of life, especially for African Americans. What is the role of the Black church and Black Christians in light of these realities? Just to save souls is not enough! Memoir of a Black Christian Nationalist: Seeds of Liberation is a poignant personal story of the author’s thirty-year experience of being a Black Christian Nationalist. The theological framework, program, and organization re-establishing the Black church’s relevancy to the liberation struggle are eloquently and informatively interwoven in . . . 4 The DNA Research about the Race of Jesus 4 The Powerful Leadership of Reverend Albert B. Cleage Jr., Founder of the Shrines of the Black Madonna 4 The T ransformation of Black People 4 The Seeds of Liberation—Answers for the Black Church 4 Practices That Create Freedom, Power, and a More Humane World

Shelley McIntosh
Shelley McIntosh shares an education memoir and leadership study rooted in urban school administration, using lived experience and self-determination theory to reflect on autonomy, competence, relatedness, and principal leadership in underserved communities.

Shelley McIntosh