Author: Andrew Gerns

A parish turns a former bar into a community center

In South Buffalo , a local Episcopal parish turned a building that used to be a bar into the St. Simon’s Genesis Center which will house a full kitchen, a food pantry, a clothes closet, support groups, and a medical clinic for the benefit of the neighborhood.

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Religion, race, and resistance

Tomorrow, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC will open. On display will be religious artifacts from black history like Nat Turner’s Bible, Harriet Tubman’s hymnal and antique pews from AME churches.

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