Adelle M Banks
Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.
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Bishop David D. Daniels III, Ecumenist Who Taught African, Pentecostal History, Dies at 70
Bishop David D. Daniels III, a scholar and ecumenist who sought to build understanding of historical African and Black Pentecostal contributions to Christianity, has died at age 70.
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Cecelia Williams Bryant, AME Church Minister and Mentor to Clergy, Dies at 77
The Rev. Cecelia Williams Bryant, an African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop’s wife known for mentoring up-and-coming clergy and fostering prayer, died on Thursday (Sept. 26), her family announced.
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National Baptists Choose Connecticut Pastor Boise Kimber as Next President
fter an unusual election that gave voters the choice on the ballot of a name or a “no,” members of the National Baptist Convention, USA, lined up behind a new president, the Rev. Boise Kimber, senior pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church in New Haven, Connecticut.
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National Baptists Hear Their Outgoing President and Ketanji Brown Jackson as Meeting Ends
Jackson described how faith, especially instilled by her now late grandmother, had undergirded her personal and professional life.
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The Black Church Has Moved From Essential to Voluntary, Says Author Jason Shelton
‘Is the Black church dead? I think it really varies depending on which traditions we’re talking about,’ said Shelton, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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National Baptists Hold Annual Meeting as Leadership Questions Continue
As the annual session of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the historically Black denomination, opened on Tuesday, the biggest question that loomed is how the meeting will end: Will it have a new president or not?
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AME Church Delegates Name Six New Bishops While Retaining Same-Sex Marriage Ban
In a joint address, AME bishops called for the creation of ‘accountability measures for every elected and appointed leader within our church.’
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AME Church Announces Retirement Settlement Agreement During General Conference
The African Methodist Episcopal Church announced a settlement agreement with a number of its clergy who had sued the denomination, accusing it of mishandling their retirement funds.
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