Black ministers took to their pulpits to speak ... This influx of Southerners transformed Northern black Protestant churches and created what historian Wallace Best calls a "new sacred order." ...

Black ministers took to their pulpits to speak ... This influx of Southerners transformed Northern black Protestant churches and created what historian Wallace Best calls a "new sacred order." ...

There are 200,000 Protestant congregations in the United States and Canada, served by about 150,000 ministers. There are 200 institutions engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or ...

“Denominational groups often lean one way politically, but pastors must minister alongside many ... which is the nation’s largest Black Protestant denomination and is headquartered in Nashville.

When the African Methodist Episcopal Church, arguably the world’s largest independent Black Protestant denomination, held its quadrennial General Conference in Ohio in August, among the agenda ...