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African American sister says prayer, listening can lead to racial healing. ... in June I highlighted a different person from Africa who was a Christian in the early Catholic Church and ...

TWENTY-TWO PASTORAL PRAYERS FOR 2020’s NATIONAL ELECTION Twenty-two of our nation’s leading African-American pastors will come together for a virtual time of prayer on Wednesday, October 28th ...

Colleague of the late James Melvin Washington, editor of "Conversations With God: Two Centures of Prayers by African Americans." Rev. Willis Johnson, pastor at Wellspring Church in Ferguson, MO.

The African American Lectionary offers some of the most creative litanies/calls to worship, and they speak specifically to the needs and concerns of the African American worship community. How have ...

MIDDLETOWN -- Five of the city's African American churches will team up with the Community Health Center next week to recognize the Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. HOPE, Inc ...

I am an African American who converted to Judaism in 1995, then I became a citizen of Israel in 1996. I served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the United States Air Force, and the United ...

The African American Christian tradition has been vital in our history for reasons of the spirit but also as a political seedbed of freedom and a reminder that the Bible is a subversive book.

Every year, the holiday is celebrated from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1 and offers the African American community a unique time of reflection, remembrance, recommitment, and reaffirmation.

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 , ...