(The Conversation) — Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains. Apart from ...

Carolyn Yeldell Staley knew about the "old time power, the Pentecostal power" -- she was a preacher's daughter and she'd sung about it. But she never encountered it, in its fullness, until she started ...

Aren’t Pentecostal churches the only place in the world where a man can get away with wearing a bright purple sportcoat? And did I not see with my very own eyes a Pentecostal preacher step behind the ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, following a heart attack last month. The Pentecostal preacher had an audience of millions before a sex scandal in the late 1980s. One of the ...

In 1997’s The Apostle, Robert Duvall took on a subject near and dear to his heart: Southern Pentecostal preachers. No one would make the film for him, so he went ahead and directed it himself, ...

Solomon Burke, 70, the Grammy-winning rhythm and blues singer whose early recordings defined the soul music genre, died Oct. 10 on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, apparently during or shortly ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Since 2018, if not earlier, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been trying to make ...

(Reuters) -Jimmy Swaggart, who was one of America's most influential televangelists in the 1980s before an affair with a prostitute brought his career crashing down, has died at the age of 90. Jimmy ...

Worshippers listen as President Joe Biden speaks at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ on July 7, 2024, in Philadelphia. Joe Lamberti for The Washington Post via Getty Images Many Black leaders are ...