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Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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African-American Churches: Women Feeling The Spirit Take Some By Surprise, Kathryn Ritchie Apr 1997

African-American Churches: Women Feeling The Spirit Take Some By Surprise, Kathryn Ritchie

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

When Cheryl Townsend Gilkes was a little girl, she leaned over to her mother in their normally sedate, traditional New England church one day to ask why Mrs. Sinclair was shouting. "She feels the Spirit," her mother explained in a whisper. Gilkes marveled at the older woman's curious behavior at the time, but now smiles in understanding.

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