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Empowering Voices talks with the Rev. Dr. F. Bruce Williams, Senior Pastor of Bates Memorial Baptist Church about how his congregation is restoring Smoketown, one of the poorest zip codes in Louisville, KY
Empowering Voices talks with the Rev. Dr. Yvonne B. Delk, founding director of the Center for African American Theological Studies
In the midst of the massive shifts occurring in digital communication today, the New Media Project explores how pastors and lay leaders might employ new technologies to strengthen their communities.
The Rev. Steven E. Carter, Senior Pastor of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church of Brooklyn, NY says his grandmother taught him how to sing the old hymns of the church and the lyrics of those God-Spirited songs give us faith to overcome our pains...
Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America, and Africa
Birkbeck, University of London
The Rev. Vanessa Lovelace is the first African American to receive a Ph.D in Hebrew Bible from Chicago Theological Seminary
Empowering Voices talks with recovering addicts Carolyn Banks Taylor and Jerry Brown about God, drugs and alcohol
In 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the black church to “answer the knock at midnight” and progressively engage in public life. As part of its annual tribute to the memory of Dr. King, native Houstonian Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, Ph.D., will address faith-based community development in today’s churches—where it works, and where it fails, and how gender plays a role, particularly in the megachurch phenomenon.
When I first traveled to the Washington, D.C., area to do a case study of Community of Hope AME Church (COH) in Prince George’s County, MD, I expected to see a church of people age 35 and under. After all, I had watched worship online and danced to a gospel song with a D.C. go-go beat from the comfort of my kitchen. The church website includes the words “hiphop” and video games
This implies that black churches—if they are interested in reaching black people—should be active on Twitter. While I haven’t seen any statistics on the religiosity of the black people on Twitter, if the recent Pew study is correct that African Americans are more religious than the U.S. population as a whole (as measured by things like belief in God, church attendance, and frequency of prayer), then it’s worth assuming that some of the black people on Twitter have a decent level of interest in church.
