via BlackDoctor: Many of us from the Generation X and Y era can remember a time when Black churches used to do everything for the community: clothing drives, visit the sick, feed the homeless, help with careers, give scholarships, etc. But over the past couple of decades, many have steered away from the church, citing […]
Donald Trump’s clandestine meeting with Black clergy leaves many with one question. Besides all that loving in the room, exactly what transpired behind those closed doors? Politicians can seduce the best of us as they wine and dine us with words, winks, and nods. The Road to 2016 will be full of flirting, wooing, and […]
Iyanla Vanzant discusses the new season and the controversial topic of homosexuality in the Black Church.
Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months,…
In the wake of the Emanuel AME massacre, African-American churches need to review their security protocols. Dr. Freddie Haynes, Sr. Pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church,…
The other day, I found myself driving around Houston’s historic Third Ward. I took a moment to reflect on the neighborhood where I grew up, went to school and bought my first home. As I observed the current condition of my beloved neighborhood, I began to weep as I looked at its dilapidated condition, while […]
*The number of black churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has surged more than 80 percent in the last decade to 3,400 U.S. congregations, says BCNN1.com. However, the number of African American missionaries remains tiny: Only 27 of the SBC’s 4,900 international missionaries are black. That’s about half a percent in a missions-minded denomination where 6.25 percent […]
What a great time!!! All this month we will be celebrating Black Music Month!!! Here’s today’s feature… The Clark Sisters: The Clark Sisters were born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. They each began singing at an early age, and by the late 1960s they were all performing together in church services, usually singing songs […]
They’re the wives of pastors, and across the country, they’re rising up. Joshua DuBois on a new generation of women who are redefining their roles–and changing Christianity in the process. For years, the wives of male senior pastors of America’s churches–or “first ladies” in the parlance of many churches–found themselves in a very specific […]
As the American left continues to seek a coherent way to articulate its moral priorities in these days of political stalemates and widening income gaps, it might look to the most unlikely of places — the academy — for guidance and inspiration. At elite universities and seminaries thrives a constituency of African American intellectuals who […]
CHARLESTOWN — The Charlestown Post And Courier is reporting about a rising trend of females taking senior positions in Black churches across America. These women, and many others throughout the Lowcountry, are part of a trend in the black church. Increasingly, women are seeking ordination and assuming senior leadership positions in the region’s AME, Presbyterian, […]
CHARLESTOWN — The Charlestown Post And Courier is reporting about a rising trend of females taking senior positions in Black churches across America. These women, and many others throughout the Lowcountry, are part of a trend in the black church. Increasingly, women are seeking ordination and assuming senior leadership positions in the region’s AME, Presbyterian, […]