African American Christians reflect on Rebecca Protten, Vernon Johns and other thinkers who influenced their faith.

GULFPORT, Miss. — One Sunday morning in June 1924, thousands of Mississippians — Black and white — flocked to a bayou in Gulfport, along Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Together they watched dozens of new ...

Black women have been the backbone of the Black church and the vanguards of ministry, in and out of the pulpit. This Women’s History Month, we take a moment to lift Black clergywomen who stood in the ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a pioneering evangelist. About two decades later, he became the first minister with a weekly television show. He spread a gospel of individual salvation, saying ...

He wanted white believers to reckon with “cultural captivity,” but saw them become “more and more American and less and less Christian.” Bill Pannell, a Black evangelical who pushed white evangelicals ...

A new exhibition of rarely seen images and artifacts chronicles the African American religious experience “Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism and Popular Culture,” (above: Nina ...

St. John the Evangelist eighth-grader John Paul Sloan holds a book of prayers as Cardinal Robert W. McElroy blesses the St. John the Evangelist School building in Silver Spring Fe ...

One of early Americaís most remarkable men was the illiterate slave who, once heíd earned his freedom, became famous as the Methodist evangelist, Black Harry. Since Harry was both impoverished and ...