Essay: How Philadelphia’s Black churches overcame disease, depression and civil strife
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEPHANIE CLINTONIA BODDIE, assistant professor of church and community ministries at the George W Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University, looks at how the example of Philadelphia’s Black churches speaks to current challenges…
Postcards: Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
In an article first published on Religion News Service, MATTHEW J CRESSLER, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston, reflects on how congregants of the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church have coped in the wake of the 2015 mass shooting in which nine church members were killed…
US churches: Black clergy memorialise the dead, ask government to address disparities
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports…
In the US, Journalist Gwen Ifill remembered with stamp at her Washington church
Washington DC, USRNS In the historic black church where she worshipped, the late journalist Gwen Ifill was remembered with a new Black Heritage stamp in a ceremony featuring dignitaries of the church, politics and journalism. Speakers at the event Thursday at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church took turns describing Ifill’s courage in defying expectations and […]
ESSAY: HOW A HERITAGE OF BLACK PREACHING SHAPED MLK’S VOICE IN CALLING FOR JUSTICE
In an article first published on The Conversation, KENYATTA R GILBERT, author of ‘The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching’, looks at how Martin Luther King, Jr’s voice was shaped by those who went before him…