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It’s Time to Fully Welcome LGBTQ Members Into the AME Church
A hand grasped the supplicator’s shoulder and pulled him upright in the middle of his “Our Father.” Absalom Jones, a regular parishioner at St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, along with Richard Allen, prayed at their usual space in the lower pews at St. George’s, but this particular Sunday was different. The leaders at…
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Dylann Roof Went to Another AME Church After the Charleston, SC, Shooting: Report
Dylann Roof, the white supremacist convicted in the horrific attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., stopped at another AME church the night of the massacre, newly released court documents indicate. After the June 17, 2015, attack that left nine black parishioners dead, Roof left Mother Emanuel, the name by which…