Sunday service used to end with fellowship and maybe a potluck dinner heavy on fried chicken and sweet tea. But increasingly, Black churches across the country are extending their mission beyond ...

The homegoing for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s last living civil rights icons, was always going to be a masterclass in tradition. But a single, candid plea from the podium is what truly ...

Carla Clark | For The Republic Pastor James Wood and choir members during the 2025 Community Church Service hosted by the African American Pastor’s Alliance for Black History Month at the Commons, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...

When Jason E. Shelton brought his grandmother from Cleveland, Ohio, to his Texas church four years ago, he had to prepare her for the experience. “I had to warn my grandma, ‘This isn’t the service you ...

A legalistic congregation and my own spiritual immaturity made me sour on church. But God and another congregation drew me back. If you go to a Sunday service at many Black churches, you won’t find a ...

In recent months, eggs have become shorthand for spiralling-out-of-control grocery prices. That’s why the Rev. Charlie E. Dates, senior pastor of Chicago’s Progressive and Salem Baptist churches, ...