AME Zion Church
Bishop Mildred Hines, first AME Zion female bishop, dead at age 67
By Adelle M. Banks — May 24, 2022
(RNS) — ‘We will miss her powerful preaching, her electrifying teaching, her dynamic leadership, and her loving spirit,’ her fellow bishops said of the first and only female bishop in the denomination.
Five lessons recent church leadership failures can teach us
By Jennifer R. Farmer — April 15, 2022
(RNS) — There are clear reasons why our leadership is not performing to the standards we should expect.
Former AME Zion bishop Staccato Powell charged with fraud in $14 million scheme
By Adelle M. Banks — January 26, 2022
(RNS) — Powell and a lay leader in the denomination were arrested and appeared in court on Tuesday.
Women breaking through to top roles in Black churches
By Adelle M. Banks and Peter Smith — December 9, 2021
(RNS/AP) — Most major Black Christian denominations in the U.S. have no doctrinal bar to ordained women leaders. Yet denominational leadership remained all-male until the 21st century, and women are still the exception in the top rungs.
Women making strides in leadership of Black denominations amid hesitancy
By Adelle M. Banks — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Whenever a woman rises, or ascends, to a leadership position in a national organization, it’s always significant,’ said the Rev. Gina Stewart.
Staccato Powell, disrobed as AME Zion bishop: pioneer or swindler?
By Adelle M. Banks — September 1, 2021
(RNS) — ‘All we are doing now is trying to save those congregations that are in bankruptcy court,’ said the denomination’s senior bishop.
AME Zion leader Staccato Powell removed as bishop after facing financial accusations
By Adelle M. Banks — July 29, 2021
(RNS) — ‘The Trial Committee recommended Bishop Staccato Powell be disrobed, meaning Bishop Staccato Powell would no longer be recognized as consecrated to the office of Bishop,’ read trial minutes.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church celebrates paid-off debts at major meeting
By Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Livingstone College, Hood seminary, and Clinton College — debts have all been satisfied,’ announced AME Zion Bishop George Edward Battle Jr.
Black church turnout effort mobilizes against alleged voter suppression
By Adelle M. Banks — September 29, 2020
(RNS) — Some groups previously ‘never worked this tightly together because the stakes are higher,’ one Black church network leader said.
From New York to Alabama, blacks worshipped in own spaces before slavery’s end
By Adelle M. Banks — August 1, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — As the nation marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in Virginia, a Harlem church joins others that have represented the enduring faith of slaves, free blacks and their descendants.
Harriet Tubman’s long journey to the $20 bill acknowledges sin of slavery
By Daren C. Jaime — April 22, 2016
(RNS) By stamping her likeness on our currency, the U.S. now is forced to awkwardly roll away, unseal and uplift the highly secured stones of its dark and embarrassing past.
After fires, killings, black churches debate the best ways to protect themselves
By Adelle M. Banks — July 2, 2015
(RNS) Black church leaders debate: to arm, or not to arm?
Black churches split over gay marriage and Obama
By Adelle M. Banks — August 7, 2012
(RNS) President Obama's support for gay marriage has put some black clergy in a bind, torn between their political loyalties and their religious beliefs. By Adelle M. Banks.
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