Renowned South African gospel powerhouse and award-winning singer Ntokozo Mbambo will headline this year’s Call to Worship “Night of Worship”, set for October 11 at the Harare Gardens. The celebrated ...

Every Black Christian worshiper has heard this phrase at one time or another: “Oh, you can do better than that.” It’s often said in reference to the vim and vigor of the phrases of praise offered by ...

Womanist theology today has come a mighty long way from its earliest beginnings in response to Alice Walker's lifting up of the term "womanist." It began with Black women and women of color exploring ...

Archaeologists have dug up what they believe to be one of the earliest US examples of African spirit practices. The researchers say it's the only object of its kind ever found by archaeologists in ...

Dr. Jason E. Shelton, director of the Center for African American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington and chair of the Arlington Unity Council, says the decline in in-person worship at ...

In the commercial capital of Malawi, Pentecostal pastors and churches face fines or removal for making a joyful noise. Loud Pentecostal worship is part of the soundtrack of Africa’s major cities. From ...

The gods of Africa have come to life tonight. In shimmering costumes of white and blue topped with silver helmets and gilded axes, they glide around the room to the pounding of drums, dancing in the ...

Issue 15 (1992) of: PRISM. Contents Introduction / John W. Cook -- African American gospel music: the twentieth-century spiritual / Horace Clarence Boyer -- The African American spiritual: oral and ...

Racial reconciliation happens when we not only sing each other’s songs but learn the stories embedded in those songs. When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a rock star. When I became a Christian ...