Dr. Jason E. Shelton, director of the Center for African American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington and chair of the Arlington Unity Council, says the decline in in-person worship at ...

In the commercial capital of Malawi, Pentecostal pastors and churches face fines or removal for making a joyful noise. Loud Pentecostal worship is part of the soundtrack of Africa’s major cities. From ...

Historical perspectives. Of the faith of the fathers / William Edward Burghardt DuBois ; The Negro spiritual / John W. Work, III ; Introducing the African American churches / William D. Watley ; The ...

Issue 15 (1992) of: PRISM. Contents Introduction / John W. Cook -- African American gospel music: the twentieth-century spiritual / Horace Clarence Boyer -- The African American spiritual: oral and ...

When Dr. Chike Akua steps into a room — or cracks open a page — he brings with him thousands of years of ancestral wisdom. In his groundbreaking book, The African Origins of Our Faith: Pan-African ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum (IAAM) hosted a grand opening worship service Thursday evening at Morris Brown AME Church, the first of many events leading up to ...

In addition to the classic beliefs known to all, such as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, there are other beliefs, notably those held by certain African peoples. These beliefs were described by early ...

On Faith appears the first Sunday of each month. As the somber notes of the hymn sounded from the organ, the parishioners of St. John's Episcopal/Anglican Church filed to the altar to receive ...

Africa‘s largest and most anticipated gospel music gathering, The Experience, celebrated its 20th edition last night at the iconic Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) in Lagos. Hosted annually by the ...

Renowned South African gospel powerhouse and award-winning singer Ntokozo Mbambo will headline this year’s Call to Worship “Night of Worship”, set for October 11 at the Harare Gardens. The celebrated ...

THE Provost of the African Church, Venerable Timothy Oluwasegun Oladesu, has advised Christians to take their religion seriously. He said that Christianity has been so watered by a civilization that ...