Nicole Martin

The Rev. Nicole Martin, an assistant professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, is vice president of church engagement and executive director of trauma healing at American Bible Society. She is the author of "Made to Lead: Empowering Women for Ministry" and "Leaning In, Letting Go: A Lenten Devotional."

Black History Can’t Be Told Without the Bible

Many Christian organizations in the 1800s were ambivalent at best about encouraging enslaved Blacks to read the Bible and in some cases even refused to distribute it to slaves. Yet despite these challenges Black Americans persisted in faith and hewed closely to the Bible as a means of survival.

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