2. Education
BA Harvard University, 1980
MDiv New York Theological Seminary, 1993
Dmin New York Theological Seminary, 2013
Ecclesial Experience
Senior Pastor, Congregational Church of South Hempstead, United Church of Christ, 1995-
Executive Director, United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund, 2012-
Professional Experience
Nassau Deputy County Executive, Office of Economic Development, 2004-2009
Founder/Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island, 1998-2004
Director of Community Relations, York College/CUNY, 1991-1995
Director, Regional Campaigns, United Negro College Fund, 1990-1991
Director, Tap Center #4, Federation Employment Guidance Service, 1989-1990
Program Director, Jobs for Youth, 1985-1990
Sales Manager, Tandy Computers, 1982-1985
Teacher, Junior Academy, 1980-1982
Volunteer Experience
Director, Greenfaith, 2014-2017
Founder/President, Social Enterprise Alliance-LI Chapter, 2011-2012
Rev. Dr. Patrick G. Duggan

3. 1. The notion of a white Jesus is fantasy.
2. While centered in Judaism, Jesus’ life and ministry was formed in a
multi-cultural, multi-racial and religiously diverse environment.
3. From its birth in Acts 2 throughout its 2,000 year history, the church
has always been international, multi –cultural, -racial, and –ethnic
(Acts 2:9-11--Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Rome (Italy),
Crete and Saudi Arabia). See also Rev 7:9.
4. The theology, doctrine, and witness of the church in the world has
always proceeded along an international, multi –cultural, -racial,
and –ethnic trajectory.
5. Africa and Africans played a significant role in the
formation of foundational elements of the Christian
faith. (the Trinity, Apostles’ Creed, Catholic doctrine,
etc.)
July 8:
Africa in the History of the Church
Videotape excerpt:
Lost Kingdoms of
Africa: EthiopiaAlexandria, Egypt, before Alexander the Great:
A multidisciplinary approach yields rich discoveries

4. 1. The black church is a uniquely American religious tradition
with a distinctive history, purpose and role in society.
2. The black church originated from a range of Christian
traditions including slave masters’ churches, hush harbor
meetings, denominations founded by African Americans,
churches within Mainline Protestant denominations, and
independent church traditions.
3. To understand the formation of the black church, it is
important to:
a) understand the adaptive challenges facing African
Americans in the 16th – 19th centuries,
b) understand the role of key leaders and founders,
c) maintain a highly critical view of the
historiography of early America.
July 10:
Why A Black Church?
YouTube: “The Front Porch” Louis Love, Thabiti Anyabwile, and Tony Carter, Published Jan 21, 2014

5. July 10:
Why A Black Church?
YouTube: “The Front Porch” Louis Love, Thabiti Anyabwile, and Tony Carter, Published Jan 21, 2014

6. 1. Black church leaders have always
been forced to engage adaptive
challenges thrust upon them by
oppressive socio-economic,
psychological, spiritual, religious
and cultural forces legitimated by
American society.
2. The various ministries, programs and
services offered by each black church
are usually determined by ‘facts on the
ground’.
July 12:
Leadership & The Black Church: Engaging Adaptive
Challenges through Transformational Leadership

7. 1. First in rice and then in cotton, the wealth
of the USA was created, literally, on the
backs of African & African American slaves.
2. Through centuries of chattel slavery, innumerable physical,
economic, social, spiritual and psychological atrocities were
perpetuated upon people of African descent in the
Americas.
3. From the inception of slavery, Africans and African
Americans survived through the use of tactics ranging from
subtle accommodation to violent resistance. Black churches
and black church leaders aided & abetted all of these
tactics.
July 15:
American Slavery: The Womb of the Black Church

8. 1. Out of the toxic social milieu of early America, the
black church was born. It emerged as a mother
institution for the survival and advancement of
African Americans and the healing of the American
psyche.
2. The black church was born out of necessity, not choice.
3. The black church was the only indigenous American
institution devoted to the transformation of slaves into free
human beings.
July 17:
Slavery, Race & The Rise of the Black Church

9. 1. The civil rights movement was a sustained,
orchestrated, purposeful national phenomenon,
dominated at its height by the SCLC, a black church-
led organization that employed an effective strategy
of non-violent resistance.
2. Prior to his assassination in 1968, Dr. King was the most
recognizable global leader of the black church (arguably in
all of Christianity). At that moment in history, the black
church was at the zenith of its influence as a
transformational agent of society.
July 21:
The Black Church & the Struggle for Equality in the 20th Century

10. 1. Consider T.D. Jakes’ two statements that: 1) ‘there is no
black community today’ and 2) ‘there is no such thing as the
black church; it is a sociological construct’. Your thoughts?
2. Consider Eddie Glaude’s premise that “the black church is
dead” in the context of his dialogue with Josef Sorett. Your
thoughts?
3. How is God speaking to you at this crossroads?
July 22:
The 21st Century Black Church at The Crossroads
“Liberals today mostly view racism not as an active, distinct evil but as a relative of
white poverty and inequality. They ignore the long tradition of this country actively
punishing black success—and the elevation of that punishment, in the mid-20th
century, to federal policy. President Lyndon Johnson may have noted in his historic
civil-rights speech at Howard University in 1965 that “Negro poverty is not white
poverty.” But his advisers and their successors were, and still are, loath to craft
any policy that recognizes the difference.” (VIII. “Negro Poverty is not White
Poverty” from The Atlantic’s The Case for Reparations by Ta-nehisi Coates)

11. ConformTransform
 Bible-olatry
 Self-comfort
 Oppression, marginalization
 Conversation
 Position, pomp
 Reign of violence: exclusion, segregation
“nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom” (Matt 24:7 NRSV)
 Critical Interpretation
 Self-inventory, appropriation
 Dialogue
 Transformational leadership & ministry
 Reign of God: inclusion, diversity
“from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and
languages” (Rev 7:9 NRSV)