Category: Features
Building Hope: The Final Chapel Service of the AME Publishing House/Sunday School Union on 500 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville
Building Hope: The Final Chapel Service of the AME Publishing House/Sunday School Union on 500 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville By Carlene L. Douglas For over four decades, on the corner… Read More »
The Pastor’s Role in Church Financial Management, Part 1
By Cynthia Gordon-Floyd, CPA, Columnist The Doctrine and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 2016 specifies that the pastor shall be the official head of all boards. The financial state… Read More »
19th Episcopal District Hosts First Annual RAYAC Summit
19th Episcopal District Hosts First Annual RAYAC Summit By Sisters Mandisa Skibane and Mpho Phago and Broter Lebohang Monyake, 19th Episcopal District Over 200 RAYAC members from the various corners of the… Read More »
Multiplying the Nation and Increasing the Joy: Immigration Cold Open
Multiplying the Nation and Increasing the Joy: Immigration Cold Open By Rev. Dr. Jason Curry, Columnist In Isaiah 9:3a, the prophet writes: “You have multiplied the nation, you have increased… Read More »
At Home in Allen’s Church: Stories of Multicultural AME Members
At Home in Allen’s Church: Stories of Multicultural AME Members By Kiratiana Freelon and John Thomas, III Nisshy grew up in a Roman Catholic family. Although her family never “practiced” the… Read More »
THE LEDGE: It’s Time to Move
THE LEDGE: It’s Time to Move By Byron Washington, Columnist Deuteronomy 2:3 says, “You have been skirting this hill country long enough. Head north.” Why do we stay in places… Read More »
Get the Message
Get the Message By Rev. Jarrett Washington, MACE, MDiv, Contributing Writer Joshua 9:12 says, “Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as… Read More »
The Black Church in the 2020 Elections: Who Speaks? Who Cares?
The Black Church in the 2020 Elections: Who Speaks? Who Cares? Since November 9, 2016, and the (at the time) improbable election of the incumbent 45thpresident of the United States,… 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 »
Politics, Public Policy, Ethics, and Education: A Right to Holistic Life
Politics, Public Policy, Ethics, and Education: A Right to Holistic Life By Rev. Quardricos B. Driskell, Columnist Given all that is politically taking place in our country, the one issue… Read More »
Through a Different Lens
Through a Different Lens By Byron Washington, Contributing Writer We constantly hear people talk about diversity. At the corporate level, companies want to have a viable “diversity pipeline.” In ministry, the… Read More »
Retired Bishop John Bryant Delivers Folorunso Alakija Distinguished Lecture at Harvard University
By Rev. Ellis I. Washington, 1stEpiscopal District On April 17, 2019, students, faculty, and members from the community filed into the Memorial Church on Harvard’s Campus to hear Bishop John… Read More »