Rest In Peace: Ella Pearson Mitchell
It is with a heavy heart that I report that today another great Elder has made the transition and become an Ancestor. Dr. Ella Pearson Mitchell, a pioneer in the field of Black Preaching and someone who many called the “Dean of Black Women Preaching” died on the morning of Thursday, November 20, 2008.
While never having the opportunity to meet her personally, I have been blessed by her many writings on a variety of subject matter. Her work, in partnership with her husband, Henry Mitchell, on Black Preaching was classic and definitive – becoming in many respects the dominant characteristic of my homiletical studies while in seminary.
One of her most recent works, Those Preaching Women: A Multi-Cultural Collection, features one of the most dynamic preachers that I was blessed to go to seminary with, Rev. Carla Jackson out of Virginia.
My prayers go out to the Mitchell family and the entire agregation of people who study, cherish, and devote themselves to sound preaching. Today, one of God’s most powerful pulpiteers and scholars went Home to receive her reward.
There are many websites that speak to the importance and significant contribution of Ella Pearson Mitchell. This is just one site of many that sheds light on this giant of a woman.
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