Reclaiming Leadership: Empowering African American Women in Ministry
Reclaiming Leadership: Empowering African American Women in Ministry Posted on March 7, 2025, Continue Reading
Tag: African American Clergy
Bridging the Gap: Uniting Generations at Abundant Praise Baptist Church
Nestled in the heart of the Silverleaf community of Durham, North Carolina, Abundant Praise Baptist Church stands as a testament to resilience and adaptability in the face of societal and Continue Reading
Trauma in Black Men and the Black Church: Embracing a Humanocentric Theism
Ministry Context My research analyzes our church’s congregational context using data within a three-mile radius of our Riverdale, Georgia location. Comparing findings from 2012 to the present reveals notable demographic Continue Reading
Untrained Professionals Expected To Save Lives
Did you know that some pastoral leaders currently in ministry have not received the proper training? In every profession, there is a list of necessary skills to do the job Continue Reading
Diverting The Shift of Church Decline
How I Got Here In 2019 I was sitting in the meeting for the commission on statistics and finance, for the General Board of the AME Church, in Atlanta Continue Reading
Nurturing Pastoral Imagination in African American Clergy
An Education for Life Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in 1868 by Hawaiian missionary and an agent of the Freedman’s Bureau Samuel Chapman Armstrong, three years after Continue Reading
Teaching White Sin, Black Skin: Toward a Christian Antiracism Pedagogy in the Era of Mass Incarceration
By Willie Dwayne Francois III The Problem More than individual acts of discrimination, White racism persists as a form of power that works beneath the consciousness of human subjects[1], regardless Continue Reading
Pastoral Prophetic Preaching: A Spiritual and Cultural Hermeneutic for Prophetic Speech
Sunday, September 20, 2015, I preached as the pastoral candidate of the Historic Shiloh Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia. The sermon was entitled “It Doesn’t Make Sense,” taken from Job Continue Reading
Sabbath Rest: A Theological Response to Self-Care for African American Clergy
Introduction On Saturday, March 30, 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area faith community and the community-at-large suffered a tremendous loss. At 7 pm that evening, the Very Reverend James V. Continue Reading