This New Year’s Eve marks the 159th anniversary of Freedom’s Eve, a famous date in Black history when millions of people anxiously awaited the announcement that they had at last been freed from bondage. Read more

Things took a drastic turn for several faith leaders and members of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) on Monday following an impassioned demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol that led to the arrest of the association’s head, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, and more than 65 others. Read more

The Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, a civil rights activist who documented police brutality against African Americans in Alabama in the early 1960s and later fought for public school reform in New York City, has died. He was 96. Read more

A Change.org petition with more than 1,200 signatures and counting is calling for the resignation of Burnett Robinson, a senior pastor of Grand Concourse Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Bronx, N.Y. Read more

Rev. Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear in early April. Read more

Rev. Bernard Carlton Poitier Sr., a man friends and family say possessed a heart of gold, was given a homegoing ceremony fit for a prince last Friday. Read more

A growing number of religious and nonreligious Americans say America should be a nation made up of people from a wide variety of religions, but white evangelicals stand out, according to a new study from Public Religion Research Institute. Read more

Dorothy Steel, a 95-year-old actress best known for playing a Merchant Tribe Elder in Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther” died Friday morning, Oct. 15. Read more

Lately, I’ve come to clearly understand that some things that serve us well in the natural world oftentimes work against us in the spiritual one. It is an ironic realization one must make upon their own personal faith walk.  Read more

Wednesday, Oct. 6 marks the 104th birthday of the late Fannie Lou Hamer.  Read more

Few people talk about the great contributions that Athanasius, an Egyptian, made to the biblical canon and in defense of Christianity. We should all reflect theologically on the fact that God used a Black man to make a list of the 66 books of the Bible. Read more

Washington National Cathedral recently announced it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice to replace a set with Confederate imagery that were … Read more

Longtime Princeton religion scholar, Albert Raboteau Jr., died at age 78 after suffering from Lewy Body Dementia. Read more

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has removed a prominent bishop from office, after his peers accused him of fraudulently having church property deeds transferred to a shell corporation that then secured millions of dollars in loans against those properties. Read more

The Southern Baptist Convention tamped down a push from the right at its largest meeting in decades on Tuesday, electing a new president who has worked to bridge racial divides in the church and defeating an effort to make an issue of critical race theory. Read more

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee on Monday quashed a push for an independent committee to lead a probe of its handling of sex abuse cases, but the proposal is almost certain to resurface during the denomination’s biggest and most contentious annual meeting in decades. Read more

When white attackers destroyed the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood 100 years ago this week, they bypassed the original sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of North Tulsa, Okla. Read more

A North Carolina woman who grew up picking cotton, got married at 14 and went on to become the oldest living American – with more than 120 great-great-grandchildren – has died peacefully in her home, according to her family. Read more

Alex and Mary Gaines awoke to much fanfare Saturday when community members showed up in droves, most in their cars, for a socially distanced celebration of the couple’s 75th wedding anniversary. Read more

Faith brings families together, but in an online admission posted to Twitter over the weekend, Grammy award-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin apologized after his son posted a recording of an argument between the two that included physical threats and obscene language against him. Read more

A sweeping bill that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBTQ people is a top priority of President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. Yet as the Equality Act heads to the Senate after winning House approval, its prospects seem bleak – to a large extent because of opposition … Read more

Black Americans attend church more regularly than Americans overall, and pray more often. Most attend churches that are predominantly Black, yet many would like those congregations to become racially diverse. There is broad respect for Black churches’ historical role in seeking racial equali… Read more

Frederick K.C. Price, the televangelist who built his Los Angeles ministry into one of the nation’s first Black megachurches, has died. He was 89. Read more

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sunday relaunching a White House office aimed at fostering cooperation between the federal government and faith-based and secular community organizations. Read more

Four living former presidents sent messages to last week's virtual National Prayer Breakfast, joining President Joe Biden in urging the country to unite against the historic crises facing the U.S. The event featured recorded prayers and messages from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and polit… Read more