Hundreds of people gathered at New Bethel Baptist Church for a tribute that honored Aretha Franklin in the church — famously led by her father, the late Rev. C.L. Franklin — that launched her ...

Freedom: all words you hear that describe gospel music in the CBC Radio documentary "A Shelter from the Storm." It first aired in 1993 on the program Sunday Morning when producer Roger Bill introduced ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) —The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Gospel” premieres on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, ...

Gospel music is more than just a genre; it is a spiritual experience that transcends time and space. For centuries, believers have turned to gospel music to deepen their faith, find solace in ...

• The Cultural Series Team at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 117 East Arch St., Fleetwood, is sponsoring a Southern Gospel concert by Micharl Booth on May 31 at 3 p.m. at the church. Tickets are $18 in ...

In a groundbreaking development for St. Louis’s cultural landscape, the historic Second Baptist Church is embarking on an ambitious journey to become the city’s first Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Yahoo News entertainment reporter, Kelsey Weekman, about a spate of new pop songs that draw on worship traditions in megachurches. ALEX WARREN: (Singing) They say the ...

A clip captures an Afrikaans church congregation's raw energy, showcasing gospel unity that has South Africa buzzing with ...

(RNS) — For the past five weeks, each Sunday’s sermon at Church of the Three Crosses has focused on a different song by Parton. CHICAGO (RNS) — She’s been hailed as a “secular country-pop saint” and ...

This ecclesiastic Cardi B cover, or any of the other gospel flips in “Praise This,” might just become pop culture canon, rivaling iconic competition sequences like the “Drumline” tiebreaker, the “You ...

For anyone attending a contemporary African American worship service, the experience carries “an expectation of participation,” said the Rev. Derrick Hammond, pastor of Oak Valley Baptist Church in ...