Gardner C. Taylor, dean of black preachers, dies at 96

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B. Denise Hawkins and Adelle M. Banks

(RNS) The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, widely considered the dean of the nation’s black preachers and “the poet laureate of American Protestantism,” died Sunday (April 5) after a ministerial career that spanned more than six decades. He was 96.

The Rev. Carroll Baltimore, past president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, confirmed that Taylor died on Easter Sunday.

“Dr. Taylor was a theological giant who will be greatly missed,” he said of the minister who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/04/06/gardner-c-taylor-dean-black-preachers-dies-96/