Currently there are nine Baltimore area churches in the network, with four other congregations and one mosque slated to join later this year. There are also plans to expand to rural churches on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the near future.
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Will Churches Ever Be Allowed to Run Charter Schools? | The Atlantic
Some legal scholars say Trinity Lutheran v. Comer could forge a path toward more charter schools overseen by religious groups.
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For many Blacks, holiday is time to remember ancestors – The Philadelphia Tribune
On Dec. 31, 1862, free and enslaved Blacks congregated in churches, homes and on plantations to await the news of their impending freedom.
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A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, was reportedly set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump” on Tuesday night.
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Hope For Salvation
…Its predominately African-American worship community of some 900 households pulls from as far away as Williamsburg and North Carolina.
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‘Hope’ Is a Verb, and It Can Revive Our Democracy
God sent an angel to hope me, and something powerful happened: Folks started getting together.
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American Christianity has long struggled to be on the right side of Racial Justice
People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles.
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Daughter of Prominent Civil Rights Pastor Says the Church Must Re-Commit to Social Gospel
The institutional church, which has largely embraced the prosperity gospels, must return to its original social justice commitment, says Jennifer Jones Austin.
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Mother Emanuel-inspired Exhibition Closes This Sunday
The Passages Artists Collective seeks a permanent home for African-American artists
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