Category: News
WOMEN’S CONVENTION 2025 – GHANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Frederick Ofori Agyemang, 14th ED TCR Field Representative The Women’s Convention is a non-denominational Women’s program organised annually by the women of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Ghana. The program… Read More »
Breaking News: Bishop Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr. Calls Together AME’s From the State of New Jersey for an Urgent Souls to the Polls/Get Out the Vote Rally
By Rev. Melvin Wilson, First Episcopal District New Brunswick, NJ (October 25, 2025) – Today, all roads from every AME Church in the State of New Jersey led to Mt…. Read More »
Not Everyone Makes It In: Why I Do Not Want a Heaven with Nazis
By Rev. Terrance L Thomas, Contributing Writer Quardricos Driskell’s essay “If Charlie Kirk Goes to Heaven” was written in response to Kirk’s recent death, asking readers to imagine the conservative activist finally learning to… Read More »
Sealy Memorial AME Church in Barbados hosts South Carolina Lowcountry Voice Choir.
By Presiding Elder Carlene Sobers, 16th Episcopal District In late June, the island of Barbados received a group of visitors celebrating a special type of homecoming. The Lowcountry Voices Choir participated… Read More »
Hope Me Something
By Claire B. Crawford, PhD., Contributing Writer Where is our now-hope? Dr. Irvin Hunt begins his book, Dreaming the Present, with the words of Fannie Lou Hamer: “Hope me something.”… Read More »
Updates from the 10th Episcopal District Social Justice and Social Action Ministry
By Rev. Dr. Micael Waters, 10th Episcopal District In this article, we wish to highlight some of the work of the 10th Episcopal District’s Social Justice and Social Action Ministry. As you… Read More »
A Connectional Turning Point for the AME Church
Rev. Dr. Dimpho Gaobepe, 19th Episcopal District The election of an African lay president, Brother Matikane Abednego Makiti, to the Connectional Lay Organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church marks not merely a… Read More »
The Steeple Has Fallen, but The Stone Is Still Standing! Reverend Dr. Marlon D. Ector, Contributing Writer
Stone Springfield African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Stapleton, Georgia, of the Augusta Annual Conference, in the 6th Episcopal District, Celebrated Easter Weekend with a special ribbon-cutting. After being displaced for… Read More »
“This Is to Certify…”
Robbie Colson Ramsey, Contributing Writer When a bishop stands behind that sacred desk and proclaims the Great Commission hymn and his or her melodic voices rise from the pulpit—“Go, preach… Read More »
“Look on Us”: Seeing Suffering Through the Eyes of Christ
By Rev. Mycal X. Brickhouse We live in perilous times. War displaces families from their homes. Famine starves communities already battered by poverty. Cruel political policies separate children from their… Read More »
The Power of Mentoring is Needed in These Days Ahead
By James B. Ewers, Jr., Ed.D. The United States of America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. As one person said proudly, “It’s a… Read More »
Hymn of Healing
By Reverend Dr. Kabrielle M. Baker, Contributing Writer On August 25, 2024, during the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the late Bishop Anne Henning Byfield preached a… Read More »