preachers
Progressive National Baptists to deploy $1 million grant to boost ‘compelling preaching’
By Adelle M. Banks — January 31, 2023
(RNS) — The Lilly Endowment grants to the 32 organizations total $31.7 million and were distributed in November.
Prophets are social critics not fortunetellers
By Thomas Reese — February 11, 2020
(RNS) — Attacking political and economic elites for not taking care of the poor, God's messengers challenge today's leaders and preachers who ignore their civic responsibilities.
Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers
By Steve Pinkerton — July 3, 2018
(The Conversation) — There is a long line of well-armed American preachers -- both real and fictional -- in U.S. history and culture, confirming perhaps the view that true justice cannot be enforced by institutions alone.
Baylor survey names a dozen who can really preach
By Adelle M. Banks — May 1, 2018
(RNS) — Professors of homiletics picked the dozen — 11 men and one woman — from nearly 800 nominees.
Like father, like son: Black activists tag-team preach on Father’s Day
By Adelle M. Banks — June 16, 2017
(RNS) Two prominent black ministers, the Rev. Otis Moss Jr. and the Rev. Otis Moss III, are committed to activism and to preaching together annually on Father's Day.
Churches rally around Trayvon Martin on ‘hoodie Sunday’
By Tracy Gordon — March 26, 2012
Concern over the killing of unarmed Trayvon Martin was echoed in religious centers from Atlanta to New York and California, with many preachers and their congregations wearing hooded sweatshirts in Martin's memory.
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