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Agnes Abuom, global ecumenist, peacemaker and African church leader, dies at 73
Kenya Agnes Abuom, a global ecumenical leader and peacemaker, died on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at the age of 73 while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Nairobi.
Hospital Chaplain J.S. Parkās new book explores grief
āThe biggest myth I see is that grief is a poison to get pastā
āEverything happens for a reasonā might be one of the least helpful things you can say to someone who just lost a loved one, according to veteran hospital Chaplain J.S. Park.
Biden calls out āpoisonā of white supremacy in address at Mother Emanuel in S.C.
President Biden, taking his 2024 re-election campaign to South Carolina, denounced the white supremacy that he said led to deadly violence at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church almost nine years ago.
John Blake, journalist on religion and race, goes personal with new memoir
Journalist John Blake, who has long written about religion and race in America, is the author of āMore than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew.ā The book recounts how multiracial churches helped lead him to learn to love and forgive the white side of his family.
Documentary on Black millennials depicts wide range of religion, rebellion
A member of the second-oldest Black Catholic order in the United States. A voodoo priestess. A gay atheist woman. A new documentary from the National Museum of African American History and Culture explores the range of faith and spiritual expressions of Black millennials and the choices they have made to reject ā or embrace ā the religious rituals of their childhood.
Many African-American SBC churches have women pastors on staff
Will they be expelled next?
Earlier this year, Southern Baptists expelled five churches from the nationās largest Protestant denomination for having women as pastors. Now, the leader of a fellowship of African-American Southern Baptist pastors wonders if their churches will be next.
Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing long-standing ties to Jewish allies
Cydney Wallace, a Black Jewish community activist, never felt compelled to travel to Israel, though ānext year in Jerusalemā was a constant refrain at her Chicago synagogue.
At National Cathedral, leaders of different parties, perspectives call for civility
Sitting under the imposing columns of the Washington National Cathedral, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox turned to longtime political strategist Donna Brazile and shared his change of heart about her.
A Black preacher, āno longer at war with her body,ā on connecting flesh with the divine
Lyvonne Briggs describes herself as āa Black woman spiritual leader who is no longer at war with her body.ā Her mission, in her new book, āSensual Faith,ā is to help other women stop being at war with their bodies too.
Florida faith leader: Black history toolkit gains interest outside the state
When the Rev. Rhonda Thomas decided to create a toolkit to help teach Black history outside the public school system ā after Florida legislators approved revisions to its required instruction ā she expected Black churches like her own would be the ones to use it.
Send-offs show Carlton Pearsonās split legacy spurred by his inclusive beliefs, rejection of hell
Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once one of the best known preachers in the nation.
Women at the first March on Washington: A secretary, a future bishop and a marshal
In front of the crowds and the cameras, the speeches of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other men loomed large 60 years ago at the March on Washington. But the women, including those of faith, who played roles in its organization, its music and its news coverage were mostly left off the official program.
Frederick D. Haynes III on succeeding Jesse Jackson, marching and āwoke preachingā
The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, who has led a Black megachurch in Dallas for 40 years, has just been chosen to succeed the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was president of Rainbow PUSH Coalition for more than five decades. Like Rev. Jackson, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church has been known for preaching and protesting, following in the footsteps of role models like the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
