You won’t hear a sermon about politics or culture wars in storefront churches. Their preachers, who might lack theological pedigrees, speak of resilience and heaven, offering hope to people who don’t feel welcome in more mainline parishes. These staples of inner-city America play an increasingly important role in revitalizing broken neighborhoods and shaping how the country’s poor and recent immigrant populations worship. This story ran on the PBS program “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.”