Breaking Bread Together: Christian Potential as Solution to Polarizing Politics The Reverend Dr. Jason Curry, Columnist  The story of the legendary, basketball athlete Scottie Pippen prior to his career as a professional athlete is unconventional at best. Scottie Pippen, like a handful of other professional athletes, was not an outstanding college athlete. Pippen was undersized and he didn’t play basketball for a college that was recognized as an athletic powerhouse. However, Pippen worked diligently to improve his offensive and defensive skills as a small forward and he grew seven inches before being drafted by the Chicago Bulls. Pippen was drafted largely because of his potential as opposed to his output has a college athlete. The Chicago Bulls’ investment in Pippen’s potential eventually led to the culmination of a hall of fame athlete who was recognized as one of the most impactful players of all time. Read More Here |
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Dothan-Eufaula Lead the SE Alabama Conference in Getting AME’s Vaccinated for COVID-19 
The Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglas Sherrod, III, Presiding Elder for the Dothan Eufaula District, Southeast Alabama Conference, 9th District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was active in getting AME’s vaccinated for the Coronavirus-19. Dothan Pediatrics Clinic spearheaded this task with Presiding Elder Sherrod to encourage African Americans to get vaccinated. Read More Here |
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My HBCU experience started in my neighborhood and on my street Dr. James B. Ewers Jr., Columnist 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities have always been academic cathedrals of learning, hope and inspiration. Long ago and years gone by, they created educational opportunities for people who look like me. They continue to provide the knowledge needed to compete today.The HBCU community is spread throughout the world. Alumni from these schools have achieved and excelled at a high level. Read More Here |
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A Call to Prayer
By Rev. Dr. Mark Crutcher, 11th District 
Eph. 6.18 … Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Our nation and the world is caught in the midst of a pandemic crisis that has lasted longer than most of us envisioned when it began. The pandemic has brough a lot of uncertainty and grief to individuals, families, churches and church organizations. The crisis has effected every part of our lives for over a year. In talking to people, I have discovered that the scientists, the doctors, the government nor the church seems to know when it will all end. Read More Here |
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Leaning more on a fully virtual 51st General Conference Rev. Teboho G. Klaas and Adv. Thabile M. Ngubeni, 19th Episcopal District  
The novel Covid-19 pandemic disrupted physical contacts of all people. Physical contacts have caused unfathomable misery that over 2,5 million lives their lost, globally. It affects all of humanity’s familial relations, including the religious. Denialism breeds this deadly reality. We know it from the multiple deaths of white evangelical leaders and their followers where this is clearly calibrated. Read More Here |
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The Truth is the Light By: Reverend Dr. Charles R. Watkins, Jr., Columnist  Colossians 2: 6 – 7 “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Paul says, since you have received Jesus, live him. You have established your faith, now do what you’ve been taught. In other words you have studied long enough, it is time to start living your faith. And by the way, let your living spill over into thanksgiving. Read More Here |
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Brave Enough to Be It
Rev. Barry Settle, Contributing Writer  You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:14-16) In January 2021 many of us waited with anticipation for the inauguration of the 46th President and the 49th Vice President of the United States with much anxiety, fear and excitement. Anxiety and fear because of the events of the insurrection on January 6th, as well as the last four years of political disfunction. However, there was excitement because we were ready to turn the page from 45 to 46, and because of the first female, African American Vice President in Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Statement on General Conference 2021 
At present, the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is scheduled to meet July 6 – 10, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. The General Conference Commission has approved the basic framework that will govern our meeting together and work is moving forward to facilitate the meeting. Read More Here |
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The Bishop Sarah Francis Davis Covenant Keepers and Intercessors THE GOOD NEWS UPDATE ARTICLE! 
Understanding what occurred during the July 2012 49th Quadrennial Session of the General Conference for the African Methodist Episcopal Connectional Church, held in Nashville, Tennessee will provide each reader with a clearer discernment of how this group came to be. It was during the extensive teaching and training on the previously mentioned classes and practicums led by the General Officer and Executive Director of The Department of Church Growth and Development, Reverend Dr. James C. Wade, supported by the Bishop Chairperson of the Commission at this time which was the Bishop Sarah Francis Davis. Read More Here |
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Connectional Health Commission Statement on COVID-19
 We realize that there are difficult issues for the General Conference (GC) planning team. Out of respect for our professions and training, professional oaths and in the best interest of colleagues, we cannot offer advice that overrides the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, et.al.), and the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, these directives ask everyone globally (Districts 1-20) to avoid gathering in medium and large groups, wear a mask, wash their hands, and maintain physical distance. Read More Here |
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Black Southern Baptists seek more action on racism from seminary presidentsThe fellowship said it was ‘deeply disappointed’ that the seminary presidents have ‘not moved from their original statement of CRT’s incompatibility in all its forms.’ 
The African American caucus within the Southern Baptist Convention has asked its denomination’s seminary presidents to do more to address continuing tensions about racism and critical race theory. The denomination’s Council of Seminary Presidents issued a statement in November declaring the academic theory that examines systemic racism is not compatible with the denomination’s statement of faith. Since that time there have been statements, counterstatements and continuing questions about how Southern Baptists will deal with the ongoing debate. Read more here |
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