‘One larger and stronger congregation working together for the Lord’
DETROIT — “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This old African proverb has come to…
Detroit
Picket signs, honking horns and sidewalk sermons: Inside an anti-abortion ministry
WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A bullhorn amplified Conner Westerby’s words as he stood on a public sidewalk and tried to gain the attention of…
50 Years: Racial Reconciliation and the Church
Find links below to all the stories in the "50 Years: Racial Reconciliation and the Church" series. Editor's note: A few later installments don't relate directly…
‘The leprosy in my neighborhood is addiction’
PONTIAC, Mich. — “You can’t be a Christian and do drugs. You know that, right?” Actually, Coleman Yoakum didn’t know that. Yoakum grew up in an…
No more ‘us and them’
DETROIT — The boys — one black, one white — were 10 years old. Ive Edwards lived close to where the chaos started. Smoke filled…
The riot, in retrospect
DETROIT — Hubert G. Locke’s picture made the front page of The Christian Chronicle after the Detroit riot of 1967. At the time, the 33-year-old…
