Category: Features
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 »
Mother’s Joy
By Erskine W. Lytle, III, 13th Episcopal District Mother’s Joy By Erskine W. Lytle, III, 13th Episcopal District Founded in 1863 by Bishop Daniel Payne, St. John AME Church, Nashville is the… Read More »
Beneath the Surface
Beneath the Surface By Rev. Sheri Smith Clayborn Recently, there was a leak on the second floor of our house. We could not immediately determine the origin of the leak… Read More »
Chicago Street Renamed in Honor of Presiding Elder Albert D. Tyson, III
Chicago Street Renamed in Honor of Presiding Elder Albert D. Tyson, III On August 14, 2021, scores of people gathered on the front lawn of St. Stephen African Methodist Episcopal… Read More »
We, the people of the AME Church…
We, the people of the AME Church… By John Thomas III, Editor Over the last nineteen months, I have attended multiple annual conference and planning meetings across the connectional church… Read More »