CLEVELAND — For centuries, the Black church has been the heart of African American culture, offering spiritual guidance and a sense of belonging. Today, it continues to play a vital role, adapting to ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading African cardinal says African cultures and “a certain mentality in the Church” have put women in a disadvantaged position. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa ...

The “Black Church in Detroit” series examines the role of Black women during the Great Migration. American Black Journal’s "Black Church in Detroit" series looks at the influence Black women had in ...

America’s most churched demographic is slipping from religious life. We must go after them. When I was four years old, I went missing for three hours. While it was a common occurrence for my parents ...

(RNS) — In a recent sermon at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, Pastor William Lamar IV introduced the congregation to the concept of “Black on Black care.” The concept, ...

There is not a single African American Catholic canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. This omission persists even as Black Catholics have remained faithful despite the church's complicity ...

A professor of New Testament Studies (literature, theology, exegesis, and African biblical hermeneutics), Olubayo Obijole, has stated that women have a lot to offer in church leadership. He made the ...

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 ...

In the foreword of D. Danyelle Thomas’ The Day God Saw Me as Black, actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor writes an opinion that reads like more of a statement of fact: “Black folks made God good.” The saints ...

It started with a Jan. 5 live stream of a church service on Facebook. In it, a young woman, fighting back tears, stands in front of her church congregation, publicly confesses she is pregnant and ...