The landscape for many of our communities (and those who reside in them) is so bleak; clouded and soiled by issues we have become indifferent and insensate towards. From high incarceration rates to generational poverty. From HIV/AIDS plaguing our people to misguided youth who replicate the misguided adults connected to them. From the violent mistreatment of our people at the hands of the state to the sexist standards we have normalized in everyday black life, it is clear that, as Dr. Robert Franklin put it, there is a “Crisis In The Village”. With all of these issues and others in tow, many have looked to the Black Church to aid in…