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Racism isn’t a hypothetical topic for Utah’s Black pastors. They’ve tasted it. Peggy Fletcher Stack © Francisco Kjolseth (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Oscar T. Moses, poses for a photograph with Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, prior to the start of the 2020 legislative session at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday, Jan. 26. Black Christian pastors in Utah may minister to small congregations, with older members slowly dying out, or large ones, attracting younger believers. But most of them face a sim...

| Updated: Feb. 17, 2021, 12:31 a.m. Black Christian pastors in Utah may minister to small congregations, with older members slowly dying out, or large ones, attracting younger believers. But most of them face a similar question from curious outsiders: Are there really Black churches in the Beehive State? The answer is yes. In fact, there are more than a dozen historically Black congregations, and the roles these preachers play is crucial to the state’s religious life. Thus, for February’s Black History Month — amid a persistent pandemic and revived debates and demonstrations about the...