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