Editor's Note: This column is co-authored by Bishop B. Dwayne Hardin and Marc T. Little.

Bert Boes hadn’t preached a sermon in about three years, but when he stepped back into the pulpit this past Sunday morning, he didn’t miss a beat. The longtime pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church ...

A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street ... out in front of a white marble pulpit, crowned by a balcony for ...