Seeking to grow his audience beyond New Bethel's walls, Rev. Franklin recorded more than 70 albums of sermons with the help of Joe Von Battle, a local record store owner in Detroit. Seeking to grow ...

Rev. Dwight Andrews discusses C.L. Franklin and what Black preaching is. "I listen to C.L. Franklin still to this very day, because of his skill at the preaching exercise." Rev. Dwight Andrews ...

Detroit — Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church, where parishioners still think of the church as that of the late-Rev. C.L. Franklin, despite the Rev. Robert Smith’s decades as senior pastor, and where ...