MOBILE, Alabama -- In the pavilion at Langan Park, Belinda Lilly is dancing for the Lord. Dressed in red dashiki and headband, holding a blue-and-white banner overhead, she turns slowly to praise ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Six women, dressed in flowing white skirts and purple tunics, move gently to the recorded music that echoes through their sanctuary. Their white-gloved hands and ballet-slippered feet ...

BERTHOUD — When it comes to “worship hula,” coconut-shell bikini tops, flimsy grass skirts and aggressive booty shaking are out. Instead, the hula dancers in Niau Mora’s class undulate their hips to ...

Mylenda Wright, 11, of Henderson, dances during practice for Anointed Hands Studio Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Tyler. Anointed Hands Studio is a ministry of the church Higher Dimensions ...

More info: Call 970-532-5030 or email [email protected]. BERTHOUD — When it comes to worship hula, coconut shell bikini tops, flimsy grass skirts and aggressive booty shaking are out. Instead, the ...

On the praise ground, where a mall parking lot crisscrosses a swamp, a group of women gather to dance. They move counterclockwise in a circle as their footsteps create a sacred rhythm, invoking a ...

The spiritual tradition of praising God by dancing in Black church worship services isn’t taught — it’s passed on by observing elders. Joy in a Black church worship setting often leads to physical ...

Joaquina Alvis-Simmons yells to her dance team to recite books of the Bible. The girls, some as young as 5, stand in a straight line listing half of the 66 books, “Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, ...