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Now that the Jerry Sandusky case for child abuse is underway, it is critical that families engage in a discussion about sexual abuse and increased advocacy for victims. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there are 80,000 reported cases of child abuse reported each year in the United States. According to […]

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Creflo Dollar, founder and pastor of the Atlanta-based megachurch World Changers  International, was arrested on Friday and charged with simple battery and child  cruelty after he allegedly attacked his 15-year-old daughter. She claims her  father threw her to the ground, punched her in the face, and hit her with a  shoe, according to the police […]

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Let’s get one thing clear: No matter which church you go to, at some point some woman will sashay through the sanctuary with her hips, her thighs, or her Double-Ds on display. This is neither exclusive to teens and twenty-somethings, nor to those new to the faith.  In this age of fashionable “skinny” jeans, low-cut […]

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  With her hair in a ponytail and her smile quick and wide, it’s hard to tell that high school junior Donyell Hollins has been pulling all-nighters for most of the semester to take care of her infant daughter. Her situation isn’t unusual in the small Delta town of Marks, home to one of the […]

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  In 2008, when Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant teamed with Erotica fiction author, Zane, for a ministry series titled “How to Love a Black Man-Biblically,” it shed light on the fact that many Christians indulge in sex novels on the low. Now, with the success of E.L. James’ steamy 50 Shades of Greybook series, some […]

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  When President Obama announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, he cited his Christian faith as the reason for his “evolving” views, reports Urban Faith. Yet for many other Christians, their commitment to Jesus Christ and an orthodox view of the Bible is the reason why they reject homosexuality as a valid lifestyle. In a report on […]

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  Yolanda Jordan* remembers the moment she decided to have sex for the first time. She was 27, fresh out of grad school, in a committed relationship–and horny. She was also raised in the Baptist church and had taken a vow of abstinence. “I was curious,” says Jordan, now 34, a graphic designer in Columbus, […]

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    In his recently released book “Pass The Torch: How A Young Black Father Challenges the ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Stereotype” author Jamiyl Samuels shows the positive side of the Black family.   Through his own W.R.E.a.C Havoc Publishing imprint Samuels refutes the negative images propagated in the media about young Black men as irresponsible, violent, […]

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Via PraisePhilly.com:  During the early years and height of the Civil Rights movement, the black church was often considered the heartbeat of our communities. Rallies, protests, and community meetings were held in places of worship to discuss current social and sometimes political issues that affected neighborhoods on a local, state, and national level. In 2012, […]

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    When we are young, we long to grow up. We are in a rush. Everything we are angered by we reply, “Just wait until I am an adult.” In young adulthood we make mistakes that often are regrettable. Wouldn’t you love to go back and tell younger you something? Here are some of […]

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New research by the Barna Group finds they view churches as judgmental, overprotective, exclusive and unfriendly towards doubters. They also consider congregations antagonistic to science and say their Christian experience has been shallow. The findings, the result of a five-year study, are featured in “You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are Leaving Church and Rethinking […]

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As a young white minister, Michael Catt said he was fired from a Mississippi church for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. He never forgot it. “Getting fired … was really a pivotal, defining moment for me,” he said. Now 58, he’s pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, and among a few churches taking […]