Call for Articles

CALL FOR ARTICLES – GET PUBLISHED ON
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LECTIONARY

More than 6.5 MILLION people have visited The African American Lectionary website!

Submit your article to The African American Lectionary with the opportunity to see it placed online in our Dialogue Corner! 

SUBJECTS:
1. Things That New Pastors (those on the job 1–5 years) Need to Know OR
2. How to Strengthen Christian Education Departments
3. How can clergy find good jobs?
NEW Deadline: December 30, 2011 @ 5 p.m. EST.

Writers of select articles accepted for publication will be financially compensated.

CRITERIA

Articles will be selected for placement on the website based upon:
Length: articles cannot exceed 2,500 words (not including cites and book lists)
Focus: how well the article concentrates upon the subject matter
Creativity used in approaching the subject
Importance: does your article address an issue that is of great concern to most African American Clergy and laity.

You can write on anything related to Associate Clergy. Possible areas to consider:

• When should a new pastor make changes in a church?
• How do you balance pastoring and having a family?
• How do new pastors do quality work with limited financial resources?
• How do new pastors work with former pastors who remain at the church?
• How do new pastors hire quality staff?
• How do new pastors grow churches?

Christian Education Department writers may want to focus on:

• What makes a Christian Education department exciting?
• Are Sunday Schools still a relevant part of Christian Education?
• What is the pastor’s role in creating an excellent Christian Education Department?
• If Christian Education is still significant, why do so many Christian Education Departments suffer from poor participation?

Those writing about jobs may want to focus on:

• • How women clergy can find good jobs
• • What resources are the most helpful in finding a job?
• • What steps should be taken in one’s quest to find a good job in ministry?

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

• All participants must be African American and eighteen years or older.
• Participants can be licensed or ordained clergy, doctoral students, or professors.
• All submissions must be received by The African American Lectionary no later than December 30, 2011 at 5 p.m. EST. (No exceptions.)
• Only one (1) article per person will be accepted.
• Along with your submission, please send no more than a 2-sentence biographical statement and a recent color photograph.
• At the top of your article please include your phone number and your complete contact information: mailing address and e-mail address.
• Any material that you submit must be your original work and not published previously.
• All quoted material must be properly cited and do not embed footnotes. Place all notes at the end of your document. Footnotes are considered embedded if they are automatically placed at the bottom of the same page on which the number for the footnote was entered.
• As with all material submitted to The African American Lectionary, the editors may edit your work for conformity to house style.
• Please be advised that we will notify only those persons whose articles are selected for publication. All notifications will be made no later than January 5, 2012. Articles will be placed on the website between January 10, 2012 and January 30, 2012.
• Writers of select articles accepted for publication will be paid $225.00 (two hundred & twenty five dollars) for having their articles placed on the Lectionary website.