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How African-American music got under my lily white skin. I’m a white guy raised on the fringes of West Texas. So why is it that I’ve always felt so connected to black gospel music? And why, on ...
African American pastors are less likely than white pastors to believe that the gospel mandates racial reconciliation ... CT has noted the growing gap in how black and white Christians think ...
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books while imploring scholars that we ... the social gospel arose during the same period as the famous white one.
Two former presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, one Black and one white, are seeking to bridge the racial divide in the Deep South. They've launched gospel-focused discussion groups in ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) —The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Gospel ...