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St. Mark AMEC Commemorates and Buries 166-Year-Old Mummy

By The Historical Committee, St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church                 In October 2011, St. Mark AME Church, Jackson Heights, received a phone call that the body of a dead… Read More »

Ward AME Church Opens its Doors to the Homeless of Los Angeles

  Staff of The Christian Recorder Homelessness is one of the largest civic problems facing Los Angeles. A story published in the October 8, 2016 edition of The Los Angeles… Read More »

18th Episcopal District Dedicates New Residence and Apartment Complex

Staff of The Christian Recorder On December 15, 2016, clergy and laity of the 18th Episcopal District gathered in Maseru, Lesotho for the dedication of Bishop’s Place—an Episcopal District project…. Read More »

The State of Youth Ministry

One of the most misunderstood, underfunded, and “after-thought” ministries of the Church is Youth Ministry. While there are some congregations that have shifted this paradigm to ensure that Youth Ministry… Read More »

Protest March

On July 6, 2016 over 1500 persons took to the streets of Philadelphia to protest the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.  Many of the protestors were also… Read More »

​Reflections on the Bicentennial General Conference

Dr. Jamye Coleman Williams—Retired General Officer  It is truly a daunting task for me to reflect on our Bicentennial General Conference.  When our family left Atlanta on Saturday, July 2,… Read More »

Editorial

The 50th Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church concluded on July 13, 2016.  Tens of thousands of AME members converged upon the Pennsylvania Convention… Read More »

Keeping the Movement Moving

As we prepared ourselves to settle into long and arduous meetings during the 50th Session of the General Conference, Alton Sterling was gunned down by police in Baton Rouge. On… Read More »

Reflections on the Bicentennial General Conference

After an absence of eight years from self-imposed exile, I returned to connectional activities in 2016 and must admit that I was overwhelmed by the hundreds, if not thousands, of… Read More »

My Reflections from the 50th General Conference

On July 3-13, 2016, the descendants of Richard and Sarah Allen traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 50th Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal… Read More »

The End of One Journey and the Beginning of Another

  “There are some things I may not know, there are some places I can’t go, but I am sure of this one thing, [my] God is REAL.” —Lyrics paraphrased… Read More »