Time to Speak: How Black Pastors Can Respond to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

A Time to Speak, organized around the themes found in Ecclesiastes 3, addresses and dismantles some of the arguments rooted in a less than thorough analysis of the Bible that have been used to prevent many black pastors and worshippers in black churches from getting involved with people who are either infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

McMickle asserts it is time for black pastors and their worshippers to recognize that HIV/AIDS is no longer a disease that is isolated and limited to gay, w…