SAN FRANCISCO — The Gospel reading at the Third Baptist Church on this cool early-summer Sunday is from Luke, who relates the story of a meeting between Jesus and a particularly avaricious tax ...

Special to the American Third Baptist Church will present Karl Jenkins’ Requiem, at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 18, in the historic sanctuary located at the corner of Grand and Washington.

So, it’s not hard to see why she chose a church that has that kind of justice DNA,” said Haynes, whose grandfather shaped Third Baptist’s social justice identity as its pastor.