Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, dies at 84
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“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
  • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    Reverend is just another word for pastor/preacher. He was the leader of his church, whichever word people prefer to use.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      He was a reverend, but was he evangelical? Many Baptists are, at least vaguely, but not all.

      I genuinely don’t know.

      • village604English
        7·
        3 months ago

        The episcopalians use Reverend for their preacher, and they’re like the polar opposites of evangelicals.