Forbes, James Alexander, 1935-

Forbes was born in North Carolina; earned degrees from Howard University, Union Theological Seminary, and Colgate Rochester Divinity School (now Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School); and was ordained in both the American Baptist Church and the United Holy Church of America. He taught at Union and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the first African American to pastor Riverside Church in New York City, where he served from 1989-2007. It appears that his only visit to Appalachia took place in 1973, when he participated in the Preaching Mission in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Additional information can be found in Forbes’ Wikipedia page.

Forbes’ photo is courtesy of the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, Appalachian Preaching Mission Records.

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Forbes User Guide

Robert H. Ellison

The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.

At the moment, Forbes has only one sermon in the Library; it has a Guide of its own so the records will be complete. It includes the title, sermon text, date and place the sermon was preached, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
Finding Your Place in the Spirit

James Alexander Forbes Jr.

Forbes delivered this sermon on 1 Corinthians 12:11 on February 12, 1973, as part of the Appalachian Preaching Mission in Johnson City, Tennessee. At the time of the event, Forbes was a faculty member at the Virginia Union School of Theology in Richmond.

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