Meet the organisation preserving and promoting the stories of Black Methodists in the US
RNS When most people think of the United Methodist Church, Carol Travis said, they don’t picture Black people. “People still think that the United Methodist Church is white,” said Travis. “You don’t see enough Black faces even though we have been there from the beginning. We never left.” The congregation of East Calvary Methodist Episcopal […]
William Bobby McClain, leader in United Methodist Church and civil rights movement, dies at 82
RNS Rev William Bobby McClain, a longtime leader in the United Methodist Church and the civil rights movement, died on Wednesday at age 82. McClain was a pastor and professor who not only shaped the lives of the students he taught but also countless United Methodists with the creation of the ground-breaking hymnal Songs […]