Category: News
JW James Celebrates Double Mortgage Burning
In late July, JW James African Methodist Episcopal Church planned to celebrate a historic milestone: a double mortgage burning. After many years of work and sacrifice by the local church,… Read More »
The Tapestry of Me
J. Jioni Palmer, Contributing Writer I am a creator. A creator leaves a part of themselves in all of their creations. Regardless of the creation, the very act of bringing something into being… Read More »
Rev. Dr. Emilygail Dill Elected to the House of Assembly of Bermuda
On October 4, 2024, the Rev. Dr. Emily Gail Dill was elected to the Bermuda House of Assembly to represent Constituency 36 (Sandys North). The incumbent resigned in August, leaving… Read More »
Rights & Rituals
Rights & Rituals By Dora Muhammad, Faith in Public Life Black Women and Our Diaspora of Sanctuary From henceforth there would be some interest, some originality, some pride in being… Read More »
Fruitful Completion of the 7th Annual Boland Annual Conference Lay Organisation Convention Kraaifontein, South Africa
By Jerome Zoutman BACLO – DOPR Fruitful Completion of the 7th Annual Boland Annual Conference Lay Organisation Convention Kraaifontein, South Africa By Jerome Zoutman BACLO – DOPR The 7th Annual BACLO… Read More »
Time to register national importance of Smithtown’s Trinity AME Church
Time to register national importance of Smithtown’s Trinity AME Church By Corey Phelon Geske, Historian and Scholar, Smithtown, New York. Article reprinted with permission from The Smithtown News, July 4, 2024…. Read More »
Professors in the US Academy defend the right to learn
Professors in the US Academy defend the right to learn By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Ph.D. As for centering and grounding myself, I am most proud that his family invited me to… Read More »
Onward Still: The Jamaica Annual Conference Concludes their 112th Session
Onward Still: The Jamaica Annual Conference Concludes their 112th Session By Joan Phillips-Bennett 16th Episcopal District, YPD Director The Jamaican Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church hosted… Read More »
Seventh Episcopal District Dedicates Vision Center By Rev. Rickey C. Dennis Jr., 7th Episcopal District
Seventh Episcopal District Dedicates Vision Center By Rev. Rickey C. Dennis Jr., 7th Episcopal District For decades, members of the Seventh District have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not… Read More »
Black August, the Journey Home to the Future, and the United Nations
Black August, the Journey Home to the Future, and the United Nations By Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith I recently took our Bread for the World summer interns to the National… Read More »
Who murdered Robert? Parliamentary Procedure in the AME Church
Who murdered Robert? Parliamentary Procedure in the AME Church In The Godfather, the title character’s son, Sonny Corleone, is gruesomely killed in an ambush on the Long Beach Causeway. Upon viewing… Read More »
The funAMEntals of Democracy
By Brandi Effiom, 4th Episcopal District Truthfully, as the DNC got closer, I started to regret agreeing to attend on behalf of The Christian Recorder. I am not a journalist… Read More »