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(RNS) — After a four-year COVID-19 delay, and the departure of about 25% of its U.S. churches, the United Methodist Church is meeting again and the issue of human sexuality is back on the agenda.
Watching Mother Emanuel AME congregants shout down pro-Palestine demonstrators showed that Zionism is alive and well in the Black church. It was one of the most despicable and heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen from my own people.
President Joe Biden was interrupted by those demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as he spoke at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina, Monday.
In 1870 in the home of Mrs. Lucille Thomas, 215 S. Clark St. in Moberly, two Black folk gathered to organize what became Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. On Saturday afternoon Black …
The old chapel dates to 1835, built according to instructions from Martha Carolina Swinton Ball Taveau, a staunch Presbyterian. After her death in 1847, the chapel was used by Black