In 2017, the ACNA consisted of 1,037 churches. By my best estimate, there are 31 African American solo rectors in the ACNA. Of these 31, 27 are in the historically Black Diocese of the Southeast. There are only 4 in the rest of the United States. (The terminology can get complicated here. When I say “African…
The Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley is The Jonathan Blanchard Associate Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College and a priest in the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO). He is the author of Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (November 2020) and How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South (2023).
