David Brown is a modern-day circuit rider, pastor of seven Baptist congregations in Mississippi and Louisiana. Every Sunday he visits at least three of them, driving hundreds of miles in his battered Chevrolet.
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Circuit Preacher David Brown Revisited
September 14, 2007: Lawndale Community Church
Back in the 1970s a young graduate of an evangelical college, a white man from Iowa, moved into a high-crime area of Chicago called Lawndale, a mostly African-American neighborhood. Some of the young people there told him they wanted to start a church. So he helped them do it, with enormous effect.
June 22, 2007: U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black
For more than 200 years there has been a chaplain in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.The current Senate chaplain is the Reverend Barry Black, the first African American and the first Seventh-day Adventist in the position. Kim Lawton reports.
June 22, 2007: Chaplain Barry Black Extended Interview
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with U.S. Senate chaplain Barry Black.
January 26, 2007: African-American Jews
Yavilah McCoy is one of several thousand African-American Jews. She has devoted her talent and energy to use Gospel music to try to overcome the prejudice she has experienced from other Jews. To create a better future for her children, Yavilah wants it known that Jews come in a variety of shades and colors.
October 13, 2006: Keith Ellison: Muslim Congressional Candidate
The story of a radical change in Minnesota's fifth congressional district in Minneapolis. A seat long-held by a Norwegian-American was taken over in the November 2006 election by an African American Muslim. This story aired prior to Ellison's victory.
August 18, 2006: Reverend Gardner C. Taylor Extended Interview
Read more of Kim Lawton’s July 24, 2006 interview in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor.
August 18, 2006: Richard Lischer
Read more of Kim Lawton’s interview about Gardner Taylor with Duke Divinity School professor of preaching Richard Lischer.
August 18, 2006: HOW SHALL THEY PREACH? by Gardner C. Taylor
Read an excerpt from HOW SHALL THEY PREACH? by Gardner C. Taylor.
January 13, 2006: Martin Luther King Jr. as Pastor
The role of pastor may be one of the most overlooked sides of Martin Luther King Jr. But it was one of the most important aspects of who he was.


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