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TheGrio spotlights Black gospel artists shaping the genre with powerful voices and unwavering faith, from legends to rising ...

and “The Preacher’s Wife” is one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time, with Houston receiving acclaim for her raw and real vocals. Black gospel artists span the genres. You can hear ...

At East Caney Baptist Church outside Sulphur Springs, which has been in operation for over 160 years, we asked worshippers ...

How can pastors and lay preachers ... realm of preaching, cannot be confined by the liturgical season,” Augustine writes. The tension between being pietistic and being political is generative rather ...

I first met the late William Pannell in 1993 in a hallway of Christianity Today. I was in my early 20s, just a year removed ...

Her questions are my own as I prepare another sermon, this week as a guest preacher at a friend’s church. I’m sure these faithful people have heard all of these words before. I’m confident that they ...

Kamala Harris has told the congregation of a large Black church in suburban Atlanta that people must show compassion and ...

But what happened next put a spotlight on the obstacles women in Christian ministry continue to face as they carve out ...