Completing the series, the award-winning Africana Worship Book (Year C) offers the same diversity as the other volumes with all new material from new voices.

Following the successful pattern of the two earlier books (Year A and Year B), this book offers calls to worship, litanies, choral readings, confessions, creeds, benedictions, and many special prayers. Africana Year C includes resources for special days, including Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Juneteenth Day, World Communion Sunday and All Saints Day.

In this volume, 28 multigenerational, multiethnic writers have captured and share the creative richness of the black oral tradition: Maxine Allen, Eugene Blair, Gennifer Benjamin Brooks, Carolyn W. Dandridge, T. Anne Daniel, Joseph W. Daniels, Jr., Junius Dotson, Bryan K. Fleet, Sharletta Green, Cynthia A. Bond Hopson, Sherrie Dobbs Johnson, Ray Jordan, Judah Prayze, Kwasi Kena, Darlene A. Moore, Toni Payne, Tony Peterson, Jeanette Pinkston, Ciona Rouse, Kelvin Sauls, Kevin Smalls, Lillian Smith, Marilyn Thornton, Cheryl Walker, Brian Courtney Wilson, Stacey Cole Wilson.

"We have been both overwhelmed and encouraged by the response of the faith community to the stark realism, the holy laughter, the hopeful lament and the unrestrained praise of liturgical pieces like those you'll find in this volume," associate editor Safiyah Fosua writes. "People of many generations, denominations and hues report finding themselves or their congregations in the speech of these poets and prophets who provide borrowed words to speak in sacred places."

This hardcover book includes a bound-in CD that includes interviews and comments on the series from Bishop Linda Lee, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Eric H.F. Law, Rudy Rasmus, Tyrone Gordon and others. As with the earlier editions, users may cut and paste materials from the CD for use in congregational worship.

As one reviewer says, "Pray these prayers and invite your communities to live into a spirituality badly needed in our multicultural, diverse and changing world. This is a gift for all faithful Christians."