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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National Baptists’ New President, Boise Kimber, Seeks To Include Women, Young Leaders
‘We are rebuilding what we've lost and bringing people back to our denomination and to our local churches,’ Boise Kimber said in an interview.
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Jimmy Carter, Beloved Sunday School Teacher, Ex-President, Dead at 100
Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday (Dec. 29) at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be remembered as the world’s most famous Sunday school teacher.
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First Woman Pastor of Historic Mother Bethel AME Calls Her Appointment ‘Mind-Boggling’
A fourth-generation preacher, Carolyn Cavaness, 41, long knew she was going to enter the ministry. “I had a preacher’s license before I had a driver’s license,” she said in an interview.
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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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