Adelle M. Banks
Yvonne Studevan, descendant of AME founder Richard Allen, among those celebrating denomination's 200th anniversary
Standing outside the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Yvonne Studevan was full of pride as she saw her great-great-great-great-grandfather being honored wi...
Cathedral to remove glass Confederate flags
The Washington National Cathedral will replace depictions of the Confederate flag in its stained-glass windows with plain glass but maintain adjoining panes honoring Confederate generals for at l...
Baptist church efforts bridge racial divisions across denominations
Pastors Frederick Haynes and George Mason both lead Baptist churches in Dallas, but they did not meet until the not-guilty verdict in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin brought them together ...
American Bible Society marks 200th birthday
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(RNS) Two hundred years ago, the American Bible Society was founded to distribute scriptures across the U.S. and the globe.
...Racial justice programming in many mainline churches focuses on privilege, power
Last year when the death of Freddie Gray and resulting unrest in Baltimore filled the news, Kathy Dwyer felt she had to do something.
...Southern Baptists' number of overseas missionaries drops by nearly 1,000
One out of five Southern Baptist missionaries overseas—or nearly 1,000 total—have volunteered to leave their posts to help the denomination’s mission board deal with its financial straits....
Howard Divinity School returns sacred manuscript to Ethiopian monastery
A delegation from Howard University Divinity School has returned an ancient manuscript to an Ethiopian monastery after scholars discovered its place of origin.
...Ed Dobson, onetime Moral Majority leader, dies at 65
Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year “living like Jesus,” died December 26 after 15 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis....
Marvin McMickle and James Forbes Jr. speak at first-ever cross-racial gathering to tackle racism
Marvin McMickle, president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, was one of the speakers at a conference that brought together more than 300 clergy and community leaders to address race rela...
Black church group holds first-ever cross-racial gathering to tackle racism
c. 2015 Religion News Service
...Carolyn Winfrey Gillette pens verses on gun violence to church hymn tunes
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette creates “sung prayers” for a problem that seems difficult to solve while also spurring people to end gun violence.
...Report puts $160 billion price tag on U.S. hunger
Hunger and food insecurity are so widespread in the United States that they add $160 billion to national health-care spending, according to a Christian advocacy group.
...Michael Curry installed as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Declaring that “God has work for us to do,” Bishop Michael Curry was installed as presiding bishop of the 2.5 million-member Episcopal Church November 1 at the Washington National Cathedral.
...'Chaplains' documentary goes to battlefield, prison
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) They can be found on the battlefield, at a chicken-processing plant, and behind the locked gates of a prison.
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