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Alabama Bicentennial Celebration Continues
Alabama Bicentennial Celebration Continues By B. Johnson, 9th Episcopal District Alabama is in the third year of its historical 200thbirthday celebration. It was in Huntsville, in 1819, where the formal… Read More »
A Vision of Dignified Work for African Peoples Invites Sustained Advocacy
A Vision of Dignified Work for African Peoples Invites Sustained Advocacy By Rev. Angelique Walker-Smith Juneteenth, celebrated last month, is known as Independence Day for many people of African descent… Read More »
Lay Biennial Reflections
Lay Biennial Reflections By Mr. Simeon P. Rhoden, 5thEpiscopal District The Fifth Episcopal District Lay Organization would like to thank all who attended and supported the Connectional Lay Organization’s 36th… Read More »
Report from the 36th Biennial
By Maggie Grootboom, 15th Episcopal District TCR Field Representative The 36th Biennial Session of the Connectional Lay Organization of the AME Church was held in Seattle’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in… Read More »
Why Aren’t More Black Pastors Talking About Immigration?
Why Aren’t More Black Pastors Talking About Immigration? By Rev. Lauren Jones, 2nd Episcopal District When was the last time you heard a sermon about immigration or detention centers in… Read More »
GREATER, the 76th Annual Convention of the Chicago Conference Lay Organization
GREATER, the 76th Annual Convention of the Chicago Conference Lay Organization By Dr. William Corey Jordan, 4th Episcopal District John 14:12 says, “Very truly, I tell you, the one who… Read More »
Shorter Chapel AME Church Remembers Those on Memorial Day
Shorter Chapel AME Church Remembers Those on Memorial Day By Veretta Woods, 13th Episcopal District The Civil War ended in 1865. It was a war that claimed more American lives than… Read More »
Don’t Miss the Movement!
Don’t Miss the Movement! By Rev. Dr. Katurah York Cooper In “The Greatest Movement for Racial Diversity in All of History,” Rebecca McLaughlin, states, “If we look globally over the… Read More »
Grandma’s Sunday Candy
Grandma’s Sunday Candy By Rev. Jazmine Brooks, Contributing Writer Grandmothers are often the life-giving force that keeps a family alive. Hers is the home we visit when we need warmth,… Read More »
Creation in Crisis: What Jesus Offers
Creation in Crisis: What Jesus Offers By Presiding Elder Betty Holley, Ph.D., Contributing Writer Our economic woes, social unease, and environmental depletion are being shaken to the core due to… Read More »
Looking for God’s Transformation in All the Right Places
Looking for God’s Transformation in All the Right Places By Rev. Arionne Yvette Williams, Contributing Writer Have you not known? Have you noticed the move of God lately? Have you… Read More »
Living Out Loud: I don’t care
Living Out Loud: I don’t care By Rev. Renita Green, Columnist I don’t care. Homelessness. Poverty. Crimes of poverty. The criminalization of poverty. The incarceration of the poor. These realities… Read More »