JAMES DIXON, PASTOR OF COMMUNITY OF FAITH CHURCH AND PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP HOUSTON BRANCH What Dixon was doing was essentially calling out practitioners of what some Black religious scholars and ...

My comments are based a book authored by Charles C. Jones (a plantation owner, slave master and a minister) that was ...

African American Christians were never monolithic; they have always been diverse and their churches highly decentralized. Today "the black church" is widely understood to include the following ...

He documents how civic leaders used theological language to persuade Black churches that it was God’s work in history to uproot and relocate their houses of worship. And he situates the story of First ...

Black Protestants supported Trump at the same ... the entire world will be talking about the ‘Michigan miracle.’” At Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, senior pastor Michele ...

Yolanda Pierce, a scholar on Black religion, tells PW her new book, ‘The Wounds are the Witness,’ explores how learning about ...

Part of that was intentional. I wanted to give people exposure to a wider scope of Black Christian history. Part of that was ...

The incident typified not only the touchy militancy of the conference but, in general, the mood of Negro Christian clergymen who enthusiastically support the contemporary secular demand for Black ...

There were the usual reflections of the contemporary media that it was an amusing and innocuous spoof but that it had attracted some criticism from Christian groups. It was implicit that objectors ...