Mother Bethel is the birthplace of the AME church, a major denomination of the Black Protestant tradition.

Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible.

At a 2015 service in memory of the nine people shot and killed at the oldest Black ... Churches dotted the mostly rural landscape, and the congregations assembled within those churches were ...

Fordham Conversations is focusing on faith among Black Americans and the dynamics of the Black church. Fordham Conversations guest host David Gibson is the director of Fordham University’s ...

In very personal terms, he also described his experience at Trinity: Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing ...

The Black church has long been ... Alter created a slew of recommendations for the church to implement: shorter services, using familiar prayers and hymns, and visual aids to follow along during ...

Raised in the Black church tradition in Louisiana, Procter has learned that part of her discomfort in talking about Jay’s death had to do with her upbringing; as a clergyperson, she knows that ...

Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area — including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Mo. The Atlantic magazine ...

Over the years, the church has come up with different tunes for its hymns. The same hymns are sung in different tunes by various Anglican churches, and now the church has decided to come up with ...

Some Black churches are adjusting their services to accommodate people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease as older Black Americans are twice more likely to have them than white Americans.

In very personal terms, he also described his experience at Trinity: Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing ...

The kick drum thumped. The high hat ticked. And the audience punctuated the hymn with the syncopated double clapping often heard in Black churches. Some of the congregants sang with masks over ...