Category: Features
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 »
Rev. Frye Charged with Felony for Protecting Grandson
Rev. Frye Charged with Felony for Protecting Grandson By Sophie Hurwitz, St Louis American The Rev. Karla Frye has become famous as the African-American grandmother who was put in a… Read More »
Charlottesville: White Supremacy, Statues, and History
By D’Weston Haywood, PhD., Columnist Ideologies often need symbols to thrive and the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have illustrated this (once again). Protests around the statue of Confederate General Robert… Read More »
Dr. Mayberry Celebrates 50 Years in Ministry
By Tasion Kwamilele, 5th Episcopal District First AME Church of Oakland and leaders throughout the connectional AME Church recently gathered to celebrate the Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry’s 50th year… Read More »
2017 Young Adult Missionary (YAM) Summit Report
Rev. Gaborone P Lesito, 19th District TCR Field Representative Mrs. Kelebogile Patience Olyn, WMS 3rd Vice President, 19th District The Connectional Church stood in awe as we witnessed the 20th… Read More »