Adelle M. Banks
Barbara Harris, first woman ordained in Anglican Communion, dies at 89
Barbara Harris, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, died on March 13 at a hospice house after a recent hospitalization. She was 89.
...Gwen Ifill honored at historic AME church
In the historic black church where she worshiped, the late journalist Gwen Ifill was remembered with a new Black Heritage stamp in a ceremony featuring dignitaries of the church, politics, and jour...
Trump pledges to prevent ‘unacceptable’ repression of school prayer
President Donald Trump, surrounded by schoolchildren of a variety of faiths, has announced what he called “historic steps to protect the First Amendment right to pray in the public schools.”
...Religious Freedom Center plans relocation, expanded programming
With the closing of the Newseum on December 31, the nation’s capital has one less museum, but the Religious Freedom Center that was housed there will continue operations.
...Reform Jews call for slavery reparations
Delegates to the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial meeting in Chicago on December 13 voted overwhelmingly to advocate for the creation of a federal commission to study and develop proposals for r...
Walter Kim to lead the National Association of Evangelicals
Scholar and minister Walter Kim, an expert on the theology of race, has been chosen as the next president of the National Association of Evangelicals.
...Is Hinn renouncing prosperity gospel?
Prominent televangelist Benny Hinn has captured headlines recently for seemingly renouncing the prosperity gospel on which he built his ministry.
...Blacks worshiped in own spaces before slavery’s end
On a narrow street in Harlem sits the oldest black church in New York State, one of many black congregations that developed in the decades before slavery ended nationwide and that worked for its ab...