Pulpit Reflections

Thomas A. Dorsey is acclaimed as the father of a musical genre known as Black Gospel. He indeed had a significant impact on that particular style of music, but he has had an even greater influence on people in quite another way, a way which he did not anticipate. Dorsey, at 32 years of age, kissed his wife and baby goodbye, left their apartment in Chicago, and set out for St. Louis in a Model A…