Mary Forston Benson, 80, answered the Master’s call on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at a local health care facility. Mrs.. Benson ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

Your church probably is not growing, and that’s OK,” Ryan Burge, a leading analyst of politics and religion, told a ...

Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock announced Wednesday that they are pushing legislation to have Atlanta’s West Hunter Street Baptist Church acknowledged as a National Historic Site.

Neary two years after pastor Selden ‘Dee’ Kelley was removed for advocating a more inclusive stance on LGBTQ+ issues, the church has turned around tumbling membership ...

The gunman had attended services there a couple of times in the last year and his mother is a member of the church, police ...

The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.