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“For the slave, however, without a song, life would be destroyed by death because through the spiritual, a musical sermon, the enslaved “chants new life.”83 This is the heart of preaching—chanting new life in the midst of death.”
Luke A. Powery, Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope

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