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How Philadelphia's Black churches overcame disease, depression and civil strife

  • Written by Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries, George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University
imageA statue of Bishop Richard Allen outside the historic Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.AP Photo/Matt Rourke

The Black Church is an institution that was forged in crises. Through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era, the network of places of worship serving traditionally Black...

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