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*Dr. Victor Davis, a Baptist minister is sharing his perspective on the Black church in his ‘manual,’ “Ushering With A Mission.” With insight from his African American congregation, Davis uses a non-traditional approach to give church leaders the tools they need to build the usher ministry. He presents a principle of growth that is biblically [...]
*Prominent scholars will explore the current and future impact of the black church during a time of deep divisions in race, culture and religion at a Vanderbilt Divinity School conference April 3-5. Vanderbilt’s Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies will host “The Black Church’s 11th Hour: The Promise of Our Ideals and the [...]
*It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation, says the Associated Press. Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of [...]
*Writer Thomas Mambande discusses the matter of dealing with sexuality and homosexuality in the church in an opinion piece published on Afro.com: As I read Reverend Lamar’s opinion piece (“Sex, Not Same-Sex Marriage, Should Be Topic of Debate”), my heart sank. For, while reading about the hypocrisy of the black church in America from the [...]
*The black church has been a pillar in the black community for ages, being that beacon of light and safe haven for the weary. Through its trials and tribulations, the Church has stood its ground as a social and spiritual resource for African American communities. Yet, with these acknowledgments comes the question of what exactly the Black [...]
*A new health initiative was launched in Virginia at three local, historically black churches on Sunday with the goal of encouraging their members to address the high rates of cancer and obesity in the African-American communities surrounding their churches, reported WSLS TV. The three churches — Bibleway Worldwide Church and East New Hope Baptist Church [...]
*The Rev. Creflo Dollar Jr.’s megachurch members are backing their leader after he publicly denied charges that he beat and choked his 15-year-old daughter last week. Dollar said that he did not choke nor punch his daughter. The police say he did. The megachurch pastor has been a huge figure in the black church for [...]
*In an editorial piece in Gawker, writer Cord Jefferson talks about the exclusion some African Americans experience after declaring they’re atheists. Jefferson explains that yes most of America is religious, but not everyone is on the God-bandwagon. While some are more accepting than others, the black community sort of has this policy of sorts that [...]
*Let’s be clear: Millions of Black women are deeply in love with President Obama, says Newsone.com. They love the fact that Obama represents the powerful black man who remains dedicated to a black woman and raises beautiful black children. They fantasize about him in a way that reminds us that love is completely blind: Policy [...]
*On the front page of CNN today, there was an interesting article about the divide between the Obama Administration and the African American church. The author of the piece seems to be implying that black church opposition to gay marriage is hypocritical, in large part because the bible being quoted by Christians is the same [...]
*It’s been three decades since HIV and AIDS invaded Chicago’s South Side and surrounded Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Englewood. But it’s been less than three years since the little church on the corner of 73rd and Greenwood did anything to address the epidemic, says the Chicago Tribune. That’s when the Rev. Dorothy [...]
*Many argue that activism within black churches has declined (if not disappeared) since the days of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, says the New York Times. But last month, on King’s birthday, a group of African American faith leaders called for Americans to “Occupy the Dream” with protests at Federal Reserve banks. If black [...]
*After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold, says the Associated Press. A circuit judge ruled last month that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful owner of the building [...]
*Conversations about accountability in church leadership and the impact of down low culture in the church are long overdue. The Black Church’s pink elephant exploded on a massive scale when the alleged sexual misdeeds of prominent African American pastor Eddie Long and his refusal to address the allegations rose to the forefront of current events. [...]
*The recession has also hit the black community disproportionately hard, shuttering hundreds of churches across the country due to foreclosure. But the greatest challenge may come from a shift in emphasis. As preaching focuses more on individual prosperity than community uplift, some scholars speculate the decades-old power the black church has exercised as the “soul” [...]
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