While a time to honor the resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to Biblical accounts, Easter Sunday is also a gathering of ...
The IRS says churches can endorse candidates. But the Black church has shown we can accomplish great change without doing so. As a faith-engagement staffer for politicians, I’ve spent many Sundays in ...
(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...
African Americans have long ministered to Black people abroad. Those communities are now increasingly migrating to the US.
Born into a free Black family in the late 1700s, Jarena Lee was just 24 when she heard the call to ministry as a member of the newly-formed African Methodist Episcopal Church. Though founders banned ...
We cannot talk about resurrection without talking about what had to die, Braxton Wade says of Good Friday services.
A century-old Black church in the heart of Indianapolis has been recognized as an important piece of history worth preserving ...
Elmira was once an important stop on the underground railroad as enslaved people sought freedom in the northern part of the ...