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Ratona Stokes-Robinson, a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who was appointed to lead St. James AME Church in Thorofare, New Jersey, in June, is still waiting to preach her first sermon from the pulpit as congregants have kept her locked out of the church building because of her sex, pastors in the denomination say.
African Americans have been free from slavery for 156 years. In Bucks County, their lives and painful history are stored in cemeteries.
Elaine Flake, 72, was appointed the new lead pastor of the historic Greater Allen Cathedral on May 2, 2021. | Facebook/The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York Elaine Flake might have become the woman pastor with the largest congregation in the United States after being appointed lead pastor of the more than 23,000-member Greater Allen Cathedral of New York at 72 on Sunday. She is taking over the position formerly held by her husband, the Rev. Floyd Flake, 76, who also spent 11 years in Congress fighting to improve life for constituents in his church community in Jamaica, Queens. The announcem...