Carla Clark | For The Republic Pastor James Wood and choir members during the 2025 Community Church Service hosted by the African American Pastor’s Alliance for Black History Month at the Commons, ...

The Friday the calendar annually designates as Good offers some of the best preaching in the African American faith community. Representing the sayings of Jesus while dying on the cross of Calvary, it ...

(RNS) — The tradition of “Seven Last Words” services hosted by Black churches will mark a new milestone on Good Friday (April 3) when all seven of the active African American women bishops of the ...

Easter Sunday carries its own cultural traditions with the Black church community. In the Black community, Easter Sunday is more than a religious holiday. While a time to honor the resurrection of ...

A legalistic congregation and my own spiritual immaturity made me sour on church. But God and another congregation drew me back. If you go to a Sunday service at many Black churches, you won’t find a ...

(ThySistas.com) I remember having a discussion about the state of the Black Church. There was serious concern with what mega churches have become and the moving away from the local church. It is ...

Easter Sunday will soon return, with traditions both new and old. Shown here, Marie Johns (top, left), holding her one-year-old daughter during a Washington, D.C. Palm Sunday service at the ...