Amen Corner
Amen Corner
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Black Pastors Consider Leaving Southern Baptist Convention Due to Racial Insensitivity
Several Black pastors within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are weighing leaving the convention due to a lack of racial sensitivity from the predominately white convention. According to the Associated Press, one of the primary sticking points came from a statement issued by six white seminary presidents in November of last year. The statement declared…
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Churches Across the U.S. Are Launching Reparations Programs
The topic of reparations is a touchy one…for white people. While the American government hasnāt touched the topic in a serious way, churches across the country are taking it upon themselves to try and make amends for the role they played in the slave trade. According to the Associated Press, there is a renewed interest…
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The Coronavirus Crisis Forces Pastors to Examine the State of the Black Church
As social distancing to end the spread of COVID-19 continues to impact the ability of black congregations to engage in their traditional forms of interaction, conversations about the future arise. Undoubtedly, recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will create economic hardships that will impact the work many churches are doing on all fronts. Additionally, the pandemic…
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The Official Guide to #BlackEasterAtHome
Giving honor to Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton, Managing Editor Genetta Adams and all of the saints at The Root Apostolic First Nazareth Pentecostal Church of Blackness. Because of the increasing threat of the coronavirus global pandemic, we have created this handy guide with suggestions for how you can celebrate the risen Christ while still observing black…
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As Easter Approaches, Black Pastors Cope With the Weight of Coronavirus
In a pivotal scene from the 2000 film Remember the Titans, team captain Gerry Bertier confronts new teammate Julius Campbell. Bertier, in awe of Campbellās talent, believes heās throwing it away with his unwillingness to be a team player and his bad attitude. After chronicling all the ways Bertier failed to step up as team…
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This Ain't What Jesus Died For: Megachurch Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell Pleads Guilty to Defrauding His Own Flock in Multi-Million Dollar Investment Scheme
Houston megachurch pastor Kirbyjon Caldwellās resume is no joke. He received his Masters in Divinity in 1981, joined the Continental Airlines board of directors in 1999, and served as a spiritual advisor to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama. He also built his 16,000-member megachurch, Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, from the…
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Black Church Leaders Call Out White Evangelicals for Supporting MAGA Jesus
A collective of black faith leaders has penned a letter criticizing white Christians who are willing to support a racist, law-breaking, lying, adulterous president who treats the Ten Commandments and the Constitution like toilet paper. In an open letter to the religious website Religion News Service, 74 āministerial leaders, doctorates, lay-persons and people who simply…
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United Methodist Church is Considering A Split Over LGBTQ+ Clergy and Gay Marriage
Same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ clergy has long been a contentious point within the church. The United Methodist church is considering an unusual way to address it. CNN reports that leaders in the United Methodist Church are considering splitting into multiple denominations in an effort to resolve years of debate. The proposal comes from a group…
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Itās Time to Fully Welcome LGBTQ Members Into the AME Church
A hand grasped the supplicatorās shoulder and pulled him upright in the middle of his āOur Father.ā Absalom Jones, a regular parishioner at St. Georgeās Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, along with Richard Allen, prayed at their usual space in the lower pews at St. Georgeās, but this particular Sunday was different. The leaders at…