On Sunday in his final sermon, the pastor of the 7,800-member Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Vestavia Hills - who ...

The provocative sermons of Barack Obama's pastor come out of a tradition of using the black church to challenge its members and confront what preachers view as a racist society. Yet while the Rev.

Maybe I’m naïve, but since when are we parishioners responsible for every ill-spoken word our pastor may utter? Do we leave a church because one Sunday morning, our pastor becomes overzealous, ...