EditorialLinda Barnes Popham, the pastor of Fern Creek Baptist Church, holds up a Bible as she appeals the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to expel her church from the denomination during the church's annual meeting in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Christiana Botic/The New York Times)
EditorialLinda Barnes Popham, the pastor of Fern Creek Baptist Church, holds up a Bible as she appeals the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to expel her church from the denomination during the church's annual meeting in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Christiana Botic/The New York Times)
EditorialAl and Vivian Robinson, pastors at Spirit of Truth Urban Ministry in Buffalo, sheltered more than 100 people at the church during the height of the storm. (Brandon Watson/The New York Times).
EditorialDavid Langford, David Langford, a retired engineer who has worked with Protestant pastors who want more abortion limits, in Overland Park, Kan., July 12, 2022. (Chase Castor/The New York Times)
EditorialErick Salgado, one of three pastors who have opposed gay marriage but have received appointments by Mayor Eric Adams, outside City Hall in New York, Aug. 28, 2013. (Michael Appleton/The New York Times)
EditorialAllen ?Cuatro? Nelson IV, part of an ultraconservative populist uprising of pastors within the Southern Baptist Convention, in his office at the Perryville Second Baptist Church in Perryville, Ark., June 8, 2021. (Terra Fondriest/The New York Times)
EditorialHope Iloanya, who last saw her son Chijioke Iloanya while he was in police custody in 2012, at her home in Awka, Nigeria, Nov. 12, 2020. (Yagazie Emezi/The New York Times)
EditorialJamie Dove stands outside of County Line Pie, his temporarily closed pizza restaurant in Chuckey, Tenn. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialNew Orleans East, a neighborhood whose minority population has long lived near a power plant, Nov. 6, 2019. (William Widmer/The New York Times)