first Black senator
From Senate subcommittee to Easter sermon: Raphael Warnock on life as a pastor-politician
By Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘My life is a sermon, that I get to preach on Sunday and embody and make come alive in my work in the Senate,’ said the Georgia senator.
In Sunday sermon, Warnock, now senator and pastor, said he heard ‘echoes of the spirit’ in swearings-in
By Adelle M. Banks — January 25, 2021
(RNS) — Warnock, who follows other members of Congress who have led congregations and served at the Capitol, titled his sermon 'On Making Your Next Move.'
Methodist minister celebrated as first black senator
By Adelle M. Banks — February 26, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Sen. Hiram Revels, who led African Methodist Episcopal and Methodist churches, was installed in the Senate on Feb. 25, 1870 during the height of the Reconstruction era.
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