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Summary Report from the 2025 General Board
By TCR Staff The 2025 General Board Meeting of the African Methodist Episcopal Church convened from June 16–18 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the Omni Hotel under the guidance of… Read More »
Juneteenth and the Uncomfortable Truth
By Rev. Dr. Kip Banks Sr. Juneteenth is sacred to me. It is not merely a holiday. It is a homecoming of the spirit, a holy moment of truth-telling, a… Read More »
10 Years Later…Mother Emanuel AME Church: God Has Prepared a City for them
By Rev. Jarrett B. Washington, MACE, MDiv, 7th Episcopal District 13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted… Read More »
Violence vs. Genocide in South Africa: A Call for Truth and Christian Witness
As Christians, our integrity as witnesses depends on how well we manage truth in a society of biased news and digital distortion. Particularly when discussing issues of life and death,… Read More »
The Devil is in the Details
By Antjuan Seawright, Columnist As a son of the South, I’ve lived by that old southern adage that “the Devil is in the details.” That’s as true today as it… Read More »
AME Members attend Faith Leaders Listening Session hosted by Democratic House Leader Jeffries
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Last Wednedsay, May 7, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) hosted 41 faith leaders and clergy members at the Library of Congress for a listening session. The AME Church… Read More »
We Are Lay – On the Way to the 39th Biennial Convention
By Patricia Henderson Wright, Connectional Director of Lay Activities To me, the Lay Organization is one component of the AME Church that everyone should have some familiarity with. Everyone begins… Read More »
My Book, “White Too Long,” Banned from US Naval Academy
By: Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., PRRI I was surprised last night when I started getting messages that my book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which… Read More »
A Season of Good Friday and Easter Hope
By Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 Recently, Bread for the World held a timely national… Read More »
Holy Week in the Age of Gilead
By Rev. Dr. Renita M. Green, Contributing Writer It’s hard to watch The Handmaid’s Tale without a chill creeping down your spine. My friend suggested I watch it, but to… Read More »
100 Days of 47
By John Thomas III, PhD, Editor “But a lack of imagination is not an argument: it’s a limitation.” Russia-American journalist Masha Gessen penned these words in July 2016 after then-candidate… Read More »
Newman AME Church Celebrates 106th Birthday of Mrs. Early Patsy Montgomery
Born on April 3, 1919, Mrs. Early Patsy Montgomery celebrated her 106th birthday with her church family from Newman AME Church, Pontiac, Michigan. Ms. Early was born in Carbondale, Illinois…. Read More »