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Professor John Fountain
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John W. Fountain is a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a reporter for
The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post, and a national correspondent for The New York Times. Fountain is also the
author of True Vine: A Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity. His research is centered around urban youth
violence and is developing a summer education program in journalism for minority high school students.
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Dr. Carol Parks-Bani
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Dr. Carol Parks-Bani is a community health education specialist, with a passion for helping communities of color and poor
communities to identify and solve their own health problems. Her specific areas of interest include: health promotion
through African-American churches, community assets mapping, exploring the health impacts of the "strong Black woman"
concept, the development of culturally relevant health education materials and research instruments, barriers to health
communication and health care services provision, and empowerment education. Recently, she has begun exploratory work on
implementing her church-based health promotion model in Ghana, West Africa.
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Dr. Harold Dean Trulear
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Dr. Harold Dean Trulear is Associate Professor of Applied Theology at
Howard University in Washington, DC and Consultant to the President for Academic
Affairs at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio. He is also president
of GLOBE Community Ministries, serving youth and families in his hometown of
Philadelphia, PA. A Fellow at
the Center for Pubic Justice, Dr. Trulear has taught church and community
studies, public policy and criminal justice at a number of institutions,
including Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, Eastern University and
Colgate Rochester Divinity School. He
serves as a consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation on their Faith and
Families portfolio, working on knowledge development, dissemination and
application in the area of faith based organizations, families and criminal
justice. Dr. Trulear is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Morehouse College (BA) and received his PhD degree at Drew
University (Ph.D.) with Distinction. He has authored over seventy published
articles, essays, sermons, monographs and reviews, including The
African American Church and Welfare Reform and Faith
Based Initiatives with High Risk Youth.
In 1995, he directed the Ford Foundation funded project “Walking in the
Light: The Church faces Domestic Violence” while serving as dean at New York
Theological Seminary. He and his wife Vickie live in Yeadon, PA, and are the
parents of three children, Harold, a videographer for Fox News in York, PA,
Jared, a junior sports management major at York College of Pennsylvania, and
Frances, a freshman Presidential
Scholar at Florida A and M University.
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Rev. Carl Francis Ellis, Jr
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Rev. Carl Francis
Ellis is
Dean of Inter-Cultural Studies at
Westminster Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia, PA and President of Project Joseph in
Chattanooga, TN. He has also served as a Pastor in various churches, and as
Senior Editor of Urban Ministries, Inc. He is also the author of numerous
articles and five books, the lastest of which was published in 2005 and is
titled, Going Global. He obtained a
M.A.,
Theology from Westminster
Theological Seminary
and is a D.Phil Candidate at Oxford Graduate School.
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Rev. Ronald Clifton Potter
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Rev. Ronald Clifton Potter is a professor,
lecturer, preacher and writer living in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended
Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and received a Masters of
Divinity from Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA. He also
pursued doctoral studies in Theological Ethics at Drew University in Madison,
New Jersey. Formerly Professor of Christian Thought and Contemporary Culture
at the Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia, PA, Rev. Potter
has taught at Jackson State University and Belhaven College, both in Jackson,
MS, Clark College in Atlanta, GA, and other colleges; he is currently
Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology at Crichton College in Memphis,
Tennesse. Rev. Potter is also a former Visiting Instructor in Apologetics at
Covenant Theological Seminary. His articles and essays have appeared in
numerous journals, magazines and books. His most recent book contribution
appeared in the book, The Gospel in Black and White: Theological Resources for
Racial Reconciliation which was published by Inter Varsity Press. For over 30
years, Rev. Potter has critically explored whether and in what respects the
Christian faith has anything meaningful to say to the vast social issues of
our time.
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The purpose of the colloquium is to gather African American men and women in Academia and the Professions to interact
among themselves in order to encourage each other in integrating their faith, learning, and ethnicity in a way that will
bring glory to Christ, and service to the church and the community.
The vision of the Black Scholars and Professionals Conference (BSAP) is to see a generation of African Americans and people
of African descent who are graduate students, faculty, and/or professionals being transformed by Christ, being renewed in
their academic pursuits or professional lives, and becoming agents of transformation within the African American community,
the church, and the world.
The cost without lodging is $60 for 4 meals and conference fees.
Full paying registrants will have a room reserved by the conference provided
they register by Wednesday October 24. All others would pay $60 for the
conference and can book their own rooms at the hotel at the conference rate
provided you indicate that you are part of the conference. You can call
Castleberry Inn directly at (404) 893-4663, and ask for Lisa Giles
