(The Conversation) African-American 'folk' preachers blended homespun sermon and song to offer life lessons on how to survive in a world of inequality and virulent racism. (The Conversation) The first ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (RNS) From his Old Testament beard down to his scuffed boots and battered Bible, Alan Farley looks the perfect picture of a Civil War chaplain. On a dusty field five miles from where ...

To the long line of martyrs waiting at the gate comes the Reverend Dr. Fiske of Omaha, Nebraska, and affixes himself to the train without further parley. Mr. Fiske has, like much of the existing world ...

PUMPVILLE — The “Gospel West of the Pecos,” as some like to call it out here, is old-fashioned without apology or adulteration — sinners all, salvation by grace and full-dunk baptism. And don’t expect ...

The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily ...

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