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Faith leaders were some of the first to respond to the Supreme Court's landmark decision on abortion in 1973, and the conversations have continued in their congregations for the nearly five decades since.
| Updated: Feb. 18, 2021, 6:10 a.m. COVID-19 vaccinations have been given in at least one Salt Lake County church and soon may be offered at several other religious sites — especially those serving minority communities. Calvary Baptist Church, one of Salt Lake City’s oldest and most prominent Black congregations, gave 85 doses Monday and will do more starting March 1, when the age for eligible recipients drops to 65. Officials hope to have enough vaccine supply to offer them twice weekly. The Point Church, a multicultural Baptist meetinghouse in Kearns, is in conversation with the Salt L...
As part of the early COVID-19 response, church services were limited and family members were unable to visit loved ones at health care facilities.
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...