For generations, many African Christians have grappled with the perception of Christianity as a "Western religion." A new children's book, Africa and the Bible from A to Z, seeks to change this ...

WASHINGTON — On a rainy spring afternoon, Denise Diggs visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was in search of a family artifact. Wearing jeans and a blue ...

For generations, family Bibles held information on the important occurrences that took place in the Black family. African Americans trusted their bibles for much more than sacred writings— they also ...

The Holy Bible containing handwritten records for the Ellis family. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Clara Ellis Payne This Ellis family ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The first special exhibition to focus specifically on religion since the museum opened includes photos and artifacts accompanied by quotations of famous African Americans.

Pastor Dr. Tony Evans talks to the congregation as his ministers lead a group to a side room for additional prayer during Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship's presentation of, "The Greatest Doubt," on Easter ...

(RNS) — Black Americans are leading the charge when it comes to religious practice in America. According to Pew Research, nearly 8 in 10 African Americans (79% percent) identify as Christian — more ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...