Historic First Community Church in North Nashville, which played a central role in the civil rights movement in Nashville, celebrated its 90th anniversary on Sunday.

Today Dr. Roy Burkhart, pastor of the First Community Church of Columbus, Ohio, is the whirring dynamo of the growing community-church movement and an outstanding U.S. churchman.

During the Civil Rights Movement, the more confrontational activists were still embedded in the broader community of Black Americans. In his research on the diffusion of confrontational activism ...

Chan, who founded Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California, in 1994 and led it for nearly 16 years before stepping down in 2010, looked back on his departure during an interview ...

Christian Outreach Church calls its new ministry the Chosen Generation Movement. Michelle Minton, the church’s event and media coordinator, said the mission is aimed at young people by “teaching ...

Any movement of substance for the community, or the city as a whole, will remain linked to the church, though it will undoubtedly look different than it has in the past, she said.

“It's for the community, the church is for the community," he said. "During the Civil Rights Movement, you know, the church was the center of the community and we want to get back to ...

The women part of this movement are ordaining themselves ... as well as how the church has historically handled divorce, the LGBTQ+ community and women. "I think the Catholic Church left me ...