Category: Features
Global Development Council Executive Committee Held in Maseru, Lesotho
By Rvds Royd Mwandu and Gaborone P Lesito, 17th and 19th Episcopal District TCR Field Representatives The Global Development Council (GDC) Executive Committee met in the picturesque landscape country of… Read More »
When a Pastor Shows Up at a Black Lives Matter Protest
By Rev. Mark Whitlock, 5th Episcopal District I posted a question on Facebook at the beginning of 2018. It asked, “Whatever happened to Black Lives Matter?” The question wasn’t prompted… Read More »
It’s time to Rethink Fellowship in this “Black Panther” Moment
It’s time to Rethink Fellowship in this “Black Panther” Moment By Jenn M. Jackson In my early twenties, when I was a newlywed and starting a family, I felt pressure… Read More »
Black Consciousness in Brazil
Black Consciousness When November rolls around in Brazil, Afro-Brazilians know what time it is. It’s Black Consciousness Month. During this month, debates, lectures, awards ceremonies, and festivals fill the calendars… Read More »
A Lamentation for Black Women
Rev. Shakira Sanchez Collins, MD, Editorial A lament is a powerful spiritual practice outlined in the scriptures to express suffering and grief in hopes to petition God to intervene in… Read More »
AME Member Sworn in as Mayor of Tacoma, Washington
On January 2, 2018, Victoria Woodards was sworn in as the mayor of Tacoma—the third largest city in Washington state. She was elected on November 7, 2017, with 54 percent… Read More »
Finding Roots after Slavery: The Legacy of The Christian Recorder
In May 2017 on a visit to the 201st Session of the Philadelphia Annual Conference, I visited the archives of The Christian Recorder that are housed at Mother Bethel AME… Read More »
Rebuild St. Croix
When Pastor Carlos Perkins watched his wife Carla Perkins preach her trial sermon on September 17, he didn’t know that it would be one of the last Sundays that the… Read More »
God is Making the Impossible Possible: The investiture of Michael J. Brown as President of Payne Theological Seminary
God is Making the Impossible Possible: The investiture of Michael J. Brown as President of Payne Theological Seminary By Kim L. King, II, Executive Assistant to the President/Director of Institutional… Read More »
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 »