In the days and weeks following October 7, 2023, my email inboxes and social media feeds prominently featured statements, media appearances, essays, calls to action, and teach-ins aiming to educate, ...
As African Americans faced first slavery and then Jim Crow, they nestled in the black church as a haven. In the 1950s and ’60s, blacks congregated to fight legal oppression. In The Color of Christ, ...
The bracing for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House and its implications extends beyond Black, Brown, and marginalized communities within America’s borders. A second Trump term and its ...
Walter Strickland’s sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver. Within evangelical circles, we are currently enjoying what might be called a ...
Watch Night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, is a sacred New Year’s Eve tradition in Black communities rooted in Christian worship and remembrance of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved and free African ...
A decade after the racist massacre at the oldest AME Church in the South, a new book explores the congregation’s deep history. When people walk through the doors of a church, they’re ushered into ...
A new study looks at the experiences of African American Christian counseling students from the Black church as they seek to balance their faith and ethical responsibilities in working with lesbian, ...