{"id":1791,"date":"2014-12-11T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:33:40","slug":"mcclain-william-bobby-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"McCLAIN, WILLIAM BOBBY, 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor of religion; Methodist clergyman. \u00a0Born&#8211; May 19, 1938, Gadsden, Ala. Parents&#8211;Frank Bural and Malinda Williams McClain. Married&#8211; Jo Ann Mattos. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Clark College, 1960; M. Divinity, Boston University School of Theology, 1962; D. Ministry, Boston University, 1977. Employed as minister, Haven United Methodist Church, Anniston, Ala., 1962-1964; pastor, Union United Methodist Church, Boston, Mass., 1968-1978; senior pastor, Tindley Temple United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, 2001-2003. Executive director, Urban Training Center, Boston, 1966-1979; executive director, Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Drew University, 1978; Professor of Homiletics and Worship, Wesley Theological Seminary, 1980-2013.\u00a0\u00a0Chairman, New England Black Methodists for Church Renewal, 1968-1971; member, NAACP, Society for Study of Black Religion, Academy of Homiletics, American Academy of Religion.\u00a0\u00a0Consultant, Lily Foundation, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.\u00a0 Active as lecturer, preacher, and consultant;\u00a0 author of articles in professional and religious journals. Received honorary D.D. , Clark University, 1991. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Wesley Theological Seminary, 2013. Received the Roger Deschner Award from the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music, 2013; selected as Outstanding Alumnus of Boston University School of Theology, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black People in the Methodist Church; Whither Thou Goest? Cambridge, Mass.; Schenkman Publishing Co., 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Come Sunday:\u00a0 The Liturgy of Zion.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 Abingdon Press, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The Soul of Black Worship. Madison, N.J.; Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Drew University, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Strangers at Home. Madison, N.J.; Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Wesley House, Drew University, [between 1978 and 1981].<\/p>\n<p>Traveling Light; Christian Perspectives on Pilgrimage and Pluralism. New York; Friendship Press, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>African-American Worship:\u00a0 New Eyes for Seeing. Eugene, OR: Wipf &amp; Stock, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage and Hope:\u00a0 The African-American Presence in United Methodism.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 Abingdon Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor_and_Joint_Compiler;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Songs of Zion. Abingdon Press, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professor of religion; Methodist clergyman. \u00a0Born&#8211; May 19, 1938, Gadsden, Ala. Parents&#8211;Frank Bural and Malinda Williams McClain. Married&#8211; Jo Ann Mattos. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Clark College, 1960; M. Divinity, Boston University School of Theology, 1962; D. Ministry, Boston University, 1977. Employed as minister, Haven United Methodist Church, Anniston, Ala., 1962-1964; pastor, Union United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}