Black churches are among the oldest and most influential institutions dedicated to supporting Black Americans. When they were first founded, denominations like the African Methodist Episcopal Church ...

The stories that shaped Americans’ lives in 2020—the pandemic, the presidential election, and the reckoning over racial violence—also made their way into a majority of sermons last fall, according to ...

Gina Stewart has been known for breaking barriers in Black Baptist circles. In 1995, she became pastor of Christ Missionary Baptist Church and the first African American woman to be elected to a Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Black women remain the heartbeat of the Black church, they are also clergywomen and change-makers revolutionizing faith. Black ...

Black American religious life is diverse, encompassing a wide range of religious affiliations, worship practices and beliefs. While previous research has highlighted the ways in which the faith of ...

How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing his faith and labeling him a martyr — has sparked debate among Black ...

It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley, at age 22, replaced a beloved pastor who had ministered to one of suburban Boston’s most famed Black churches for 24 years. Subscribe to read this ...

*A recent sermon from Bishop Patrick L. Wooden Sr. has ignited a firestorm across social media. The pastor of Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, NC, did not hold back as he delivered a ...

For nearly four decades I’ve been listening to sermons. While God has formed me through the preaching ministry of many fine expositors, there are precious few individual sermons I remember. But there ...

Black women have been the backbone of the Black church and the vanguards of ministry, in and out of the pulpit. This Women’s History Month, we take a moment to lift Black clergywomen who stood in the ...

*A recent sermon from Bishop Patrick L. Wooden Sr. has ignited a firestorm across social media. The pastor of Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, NC, did not hold back as he delivered a ...