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Black churches help Gary weather a prolonged blackout (opens the original)
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When a powerful storm swept through Gary, Indiana, last month, downing trees and snapping power lines, the city was plunged into darkness. It took the better part of a month for some of the city’s lights to flicker back on. But the crisis isn’t over for some. Without electricity for 17 days, some residents had to throw away spoiled food. Others learned their homes needed hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of dollars in repairs before power could be restored. To Rev. Nicole Patrice Guns, senio
He resisted the pulpit. Now he’s building a church of his own (opens the original)
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As the son of the man who leads one of the most influential Black churches in the country, Rev. Joshua Thomas spent years avoiding the call to ministry. It’s not that he didn’t love the church; he preferred to stay behind the scenes, making sure the audio, lighting and other technology worked. “Growing up in a pastor’s family, it was definitely not my dream” to stand at the pulpit, said Thomas, whose father, Bishop Walter Scott Thomas Sr., is pastor emeritus of Baltimore’s New Psalmist Baptist C
For some divorced members, church becomes another loss (opens the original)
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For nearly a decade, Kimmoly LaBoo poured herself into her Baltimore-area church, completing leadership training and mentoring others. But when her marriage began falling apart, she said she encountered misunderstanding and blame-shifting from church leadership instead of the support she expected. During counseling sessions, LaBoo says she initially withheld details of her husband’s emotional abuse to protect his dignity, only to have the pastor privately blame her for the faltering marriage. Ev
Rising Black pastor reaches audiences in MAGA circles (opens the original)
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For years, Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell, founder of Atlanta’s rapidly growing 2819 Church, has built a national following by preaching biblical authority, discipleship and cultural conservatism while resisting easy political labels. He’s also avoided the Black church tradition of social justice and civic engagement, instead emphasizing personal holiness and what he describes as orthodox Christianity. That includes preaching to Black parents that they should stop blaming police for the deaths o
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