Category: Features

Worship in the Covenant Community: Reflection on a Connectional Church School LessonDr. Chantrise Sims Holliman, 6th Episcopal District

On September 8, I was privileged to lead the lesson for Connectional Church School. As I prepared, God highlighted three significant themes worth sharing: where we worship, how we worship, and… Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

From The Pastor’s Desk 

By Rev. Andre P. Jefferson, Jr., 2nd Episcopal District “Don’t hurt me.” “Why would we hurt you; you called us.” That was part of the exchange between Sonya Massey and… Read More »