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Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The Rev. Heber Brown III, founder of the Black Church Food Security Network, says that ‘food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries will not change the underlying conditions that have our community hungry in the first place.’
(RNS) — The former president also told RNS about his plans to speak at Liberty University and cutting back on his Sunday school teaching.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘Certainly, ending racism might seem like an aspiration but, like the very first disciples, we followers of Jesus are called to bear witness to something that the world cannot yet believe is possible,’ said the Rev. Sharon Watkins, director of the National Council of Church’s Truth and Racial Justice Initiative.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — Two of the three sites are houses of worship.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — The Rev. Cleophus Smith marched in 1968 with black laborers supported by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in their efforts to improve working conditions.
A month before the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, Smith, 75, talked with Religion News Service about his dual roles as an associate minister and a sanitation worker.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (RNS) — One of the two surviving sanitation workers who went on strike in 1968 and who remain on the job today recalled King’s last sermon and his continuing legacy.
(RNS) — Across the country, congregants have bought out theaters for screenings and dressed in their favorite African attire to see a superhero who looks like them.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — From Baptists to Bruderhofs, people spoke of personal connections with the longtime evangelist, even if they never met him or saw him in person.
(RNS) — A collection of quotes reflects the evangelist’s relationships with 13 presidents — from Truman to Trump.
(RNS) — William Martin says there won’t be a ‘next Billy Graham.’
(RNS) — Evangelist Billy Graham may have been the name and face behind the microphone on many a crusade stage, but the team that supported him on and off that stage was an integral part of his ministry.
(RNS) — Across the decades, Billy Graham preached to more than 210 million people in more than 185 countries across the world.
(RNS) — One commenter recalled how his preaching was described as ‘holding the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.’
(RNS) — A man who started his career as a Fuller Brush salesman lived an extraordinary life that spanned more than nine decades.
(RNS) — ‘He would have to be viewed as by far the most important, single religious figure of the 20th century here in America,’ said Randall Balmer, chairman of the religion department at Dartmouth College.