Religion

Taylor’s Chapel P. B. Church held a special celebration of Black History Month and a recognition of  Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on Sunday, February 26, 2023. The service was held at the church’s […]

Photo’s submitted By Lee Parker, SON staff writer

By Jeremy Gray The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee this week voted to expel six churches — one of them for allegedly mishandling a sexual abuse allegation and the other five for having female pastors. “Southern […]

By Alabama state Sen. Rodger Smitherman and Alabama state Sen. Jabo Waggoner This is a guest opinion column For more than 100 years, Birmingham-Southern College has been a pillar of Birmingham, Jefferson County, and the State […]

By Greg Garrison  The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church had 198 congregations out of 638 disaffiliate on Dec. 10, but since then has been starting new congregations in communities where the United Methodist affiliate […]

KATHRYN KEMP How the Great Migration changed music in the black church forever. In the 1920s, Chicago’s first African American congregations were at a crossroads. After decades of investment, the churches and their musicians were […]

RANN MILLER How Christian teachers can tell the story of Black history in culturally relevant ways. As a kid, my friends and I believed that the designation Black History Month in February was due to […]