A statue of Bishop Richard Allen outside the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. AP Photo/Matt Rourke by Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University The Black Church is an institution that was forged in crises. Through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era, the … Continued
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