Category: Features
Court Restores Assets and Programs to First AME Church
Court Restores Assets and Programs to First AME Church By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer, LA Sentinel The nearly five-year battle to obtain assets belonging to First AME Church of… Read More »
#MeToo in God’s House: Reflecting on Sexual Harassment and Assault in the AME Church
#MeToo in God’s House: Reflecting on Sexual Harassment and Assault in the AME Church By Mr. John Thomas, III, Editor On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published… Read More »
What Shall be our Response when we have Already been Denied? “Shut it down!”
By Rev. Christine Pennington-Stancil, 5th Episcopal District As I was standing in the midst of the scene of a police state, a sense of brokenness overwhelmed me. By now,… Read More »
Rev. Frye Charged with Felony for Protecting Grandson
Rev. Frye Charged with Felony for Protecting Grandson By Sophie Hurwitz, St Louis American The Rev. Karla Frye has become famous as the African-American grandmother who was put in a… Read More »
Charlottesville: White Supremacy, Statues, and History
By D’Weston Haywood, PhD., Columnist Ideologies often need symbols to thrive and the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have illustrated this (once again). Protests around the statue of Confederate General Robert… Read More »
Dr. Mayberry Celebrates 50 Years in Ministry
By Tasion Kwamilele, 5th Episcopal District First AME Church of Oakland and leaders throughout the connectional AME Church recently gathered to celebrate the Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry’s 50th year… Read More »
2017 Young Adult Missionary (YAM) Summit Report
Rev. Gaborone P Lesito, 19th District TCR Field Representative Mrs. Kelebogile Patience Olyn, WMS 3rd Vice President, 19th District The Connectional Church stood in awe as we witnessed the 20th… Read More »
Immanuel Temple Hosts “Big Deal” Book Signing for Bishop McKenzie
Immanuel Temple Hosts “Big Deal” Book Signing for Bishop McKenzie The 10th District Presiding Prelate, National Chaplain of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and The Links, Inc. unveiled her fifth… Read More »
AME Church Issues Open Letter to Boy Scouts of America in Response to President Trump’s National Jamboree Speech
Mr. Michael Surbaugh Chief Scout Executive Boy Scouts of America P.O. Box 152079 Irving, TX 75015-2079 Dear Mr. Surbaugh: Greetings from the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), its Department of… Read More »
TCR Breaking News: Bishops Meet with Concerned Pastors and Lay Supporters in the 19th District
THE CHURCH HAS LISTENED By Rev. Gaborone Lesito, 19th District TCR Field Representative The day that the Church has been waiting for had finally arrived. The Bishops of the Church… Read More »
Stirring Up Gifts From God
Stirring Up Gifts From God By Rev. Lana Parks Miller & Rev. Morgan Dixon, 4th Episcopal District Sunday, June 25th was Annual Women’s Day at DuPage AME Church in Lisle,… Read More »
The Lynching of Philando Castile
The Lynching of Philando Castile By: Jenn M. Jackson There are subtle (and not so subtle) reminders everywhere that Black lives do not matter. The recent acquittal of Philando Castile’s… Read More »