gospel
In ‘Gospel’ docuseries, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores Black church’s music, ministers
By Adelle M. Banks — February 9, 2024
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Gates reveals early tension within the genres as some musicians held to music only of faith and others were comfortable far afield from gospel music.
One House Music’s new EP hopes to be Christian music for a non-Christian audience
By Kathryn Post — October 10, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Eyes Up’ is the latest release from One House Music, a collective from the LA-based church One: A Potter’s House Church, led by Touré Roberts and Sarah Jakes Roberts.
Why Christian Nationalism makes American Christians less Christlike
By Andrew Whitehead — August 18, 2023
(RNS) — What if the greatest danger to the witness of Christianity in the United States wasn't an outside threat? What if the danger was closer to home and looked so familiar that it was able to evade detection?
The resurrection changes everything
By Thomas Reese — May 1, 2023
(RNS) — What Jesus' resurrection did to the disciples shows us what impact it should have on us.
SBC President J.D. Greear: ‘God did not call Southern Baptists to save America’
By Bob Smietana — February 22, 2021
(RNS) — In a speech to the SBC Executive Committee meeting, Greear asked, ‘Do we want to be a gospel people, or a Southern culture people? Which is the more important part of our name — Southern or Baptist?’
Evangelical asylum-seekers stuck in Mexico hold prayer vigil for the US election
By Bob Smietana — November 6, 2020
(RNS) — 'Their lives and the lives of the children depend on the outcome of the election,' said Alma Ruth, founder of the Texas-based Practice Mercy Foundation.
After a Holy Week disrupted by death, an honest Easter
By Laura Everett — April 9, 2020
(RNS) — We are heading into an Easter that stares straight into the eyes of death and empire and still declares love stronger than the grave.
Is Kanye West even allowed to talk about Jesus?
By Heather Thompson Day — October 25, 2019
(RNS) — Since Kanye West announced his conversion and his intention to produce a gospel album, there's been a reaction from Christian Twitter, most of it mocking his pledge. But there shouldn't be a spiritual litmus test that qualifies us to say what’s happening with our faith.
Advice to Christians on dealing with family at Thanksgiving
By Russell Moore — November 21, 2018
(RNS) — The family holiday table is no place to separate the wheat from the weeds.
At the Olympics, thousands of missionaries compete for souls
By Madeline C. Mulkey — February 22, 2018
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (RNS) — Teams of Christians — Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and more — aim to save souls at the Winter Games.
Gospel star Edwin Hawkins, known for ‘Oh Happy Day,’ dies
By Lauren Markoe — January 15, 2018
(AP) — Along with Andrae Crouch, James Cleveland and a handful of others, Hawkins was credited as a founder of modern gospel music.
Eugene Peterson on Donald Trump and the state of American Christianity
By Jonathan Merritt — July 11, 2017
The 84-year-old bestselling author says, "Donald Trump is the enemy" and "megachurches are not churches."
When gospel sermons came on the phonograph
By Jerry Zolten — July 2, 2017
(The Conversation) African-American 'folk' preachers blended homespun sermon and song to offer life lessons on how to survive in a world of inequality and virulent racism.
The gospel according to Wonder Woman?
By Yonat Shimron — June 11, 2017
(RNS) In the latest action movie, we have a skillfully wrought story about a powerful woman, a divine force in the world and all of the other women who helped fashion her.
Gospel singer James Fortune pleads guilty to striking his wife
By Adelle M. Banks — March 9, 2016
(RNS) A district judge sentenced him to five years of probation and five days in jail. He has been ordered to stay away from his wife.
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