Category: Features
13th Episcopal District Establishes Chaplain Spiritual Care Team
Rev. Dr. Benita Livingston, 13th Episcopal District The 13th Episcopal District, under the leadership of Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield and Supervisor Ainsley Byfield, held its Mid-Year Convocation on March… Read More »
NBA All-Star Stephen Curry Picks A.M.E. Author’s Mystery Novel
For His Literati Book Club Patricia Raybon, 5th Episcopal District DENVER, CO – When the news came, A.M.E. author Patricia Raybon struggled to believe it. Her favorite NBA All-Star player, Stephen… Read More »
Time After Time: The Emmet Till Anti-Lynching Act and White People’s Time
By D’Weston Haywood, Columnist From election cycles to legislation, politics is often a race against time. Yet, just as often, time is raced. Indeed, many are familiar with the colloquial… Read More »
Biden’s State of the Union Address Affirms What We Already Know: His Progressive Agenda is over
Quardricos Driskell, Columnist President Biden came to Capitol Hill on the 404th day of his presidency, during perhaps the most pivotal moment of his short tenure to deliver the State of the… Read More »
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Remembering Dr. Jamye Coleman Williams
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Remembering Dr. Jamye Coleman WilliamsBy Editor John Thomas,III Whenever I found myself on the wrong end of Jamye Coleman Williams’ finger, she would tell me, “When… Read More »
A Tale of Two Churches
By Rev. Joelynn T. Stokes, Esq. , 4th Episcopal District It was the best of times and the worst of times. This quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens aptly… Read More »
Enjoy Life
By Byron Washington, Columnist Enjoy Life By Byron Washington, Columnist I finished my doctorate in December 2021, and it came with a feeling of great joy. I was happy to… Read More »
Founder’s Day Message to the Connectional AME Church
Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield Presiding Prelate of the 13th Episcopal District and President of the Council of Bishops In 1984, at my first Founder’s Day as a pastor, a little… Read More »
Decolonizing the AME Church
By John Thomas, III, Editor Decolonizing the AME Church By John Thomas, III, Editor On November 30 at midnight, the Caribbean country of Barbados celebrated the transition from a constitutional… Read More »
Transition of Dr. Jamye Coleman Williams (1918-2022)
Born on December 15, 1918, in Louisville, Kentucky, to an A.M.E. minister and a religious writer, Williams grew up in Kentucky and earned her B.A. with honors in English from… Read More »
In Memorial: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
By Rev. Gaborone P Lesito, 19th Episcopal District Field Representative In Memorial: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu By Rev. Gaborone P Lesito, 19th Episcopal District Field Representative One of the… Read More »
The Heart of the Holidays
The Heart of the Holidays Rev. Dr. Darryn Hewson, Contributing Writer A holiday is a “holy” day and therefore has sacred significance within whichever tradition celebrates it, but often the… Read More »