Founder’s Day Message to the Connectional AME Church
 We are in our Founder’s Day season, the hallmark for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For us, this Is the best season of the year. We gather. We remember. We reflect. We treasure. We gather in the houses of love; we call churches to remember the dedicated servants who built the foundations on which we stand while reflecting on our history (AME and beyond). We celebrate the legacy of Richard, Flora, and Sarah Allen. We enact, recite, and sing our history as a people of triumph and tenacity.
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AME University, Conservation International Liberia Sign Memorandum of Understanding Monrovia, Liberia (January 14, 2022): The AME University (AMEU) and Conservation International (CI) Liberia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at promoting Liberia’s Young Conservation Leaders Program in internship, research, research analysis, and secondment activities. Under the MOU, CI will, among other things, support at least three (AMEU students to participate in field activities at CI field project sites, conduct three (3) training sessions for AMEU students, provide internship and job training opportunities for at least five (5) AMEU students annually, invite AMEU students to participate in CI national stakeholders’ workshops and training programs in Liberia and provide a working environment, including access to the internet and a desk at CI offices for AMEU students to engage in online research.
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The Midwives, the Magi, the Messiah, the Mess and the Mob
Rev. Renita Green, Columnist  After listening to Eddie S. Glaude’s book, Begin Again and James Baldwin’s, The Fire Next Time, I am certain that the soul pain of racism is so deep, so private that no amount of education nor depth of relationship can help a white person truly know the power of its pangs. We do not know the pain of our humanness being questioned, challenged, or devalued. Liturgically speaking, we are in the season of Epiphany—the manifestation of the Messiah to the Jews and Gentiles. At the time Magi came to pay homage, Herod ordered the murder of all baby boys up to two years old. |
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Mt. Pisgah AME Church, Lawnside, New Jersey Celebrates 229 Years; Jarena Lee Tomb Rededicated On December 12, 2021, the members of Mt. Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church and well-wishers from across the connectional AME Church gathered to celebrate the 229th Anniversary of Mt. Pisgah AME Church in Lawnside, New Jersey. Pastored by the Rev. Dr. Michael Chism, the congregation is one of several along the eastern seaboard that existed before the AME denomination was organized at the first General Conference in 1816. The church is also the final resting place of Jarena Lee, the first woman licensed to preach in the AME Church. At the 2016 General Conference, Jarena Lee was recognized as an ordained itinerant elder by the Connectional Church. Read More Here |
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Decolonizing the Black Church
George Anthony Pratt, Contributing Writer
On a December day during the heat of finals week, I received a notification from a mentor that prompted me to pause from the blaze of essay writing. He posed a provocative question that spurred one of our usual philosophical engagements via text. Through a triplet of inquiries, he asked how does one promote the decolonization of Christianity in the Church? Warm with the embers of wordsmithing, I responded in this way:
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Just Ask
By Rev. Sheri D. Smith Clayborn, Contributing Writer 
Have you ever been, or have you ever noticed someone else being passive about asking for what they want, even something that seems simple? It is almost impossible to get what you want without intentionally asking for it. You will definitely get something; however, it will not likely be what you want, especially if it remains in your head. What you desire is likely available if your ask is specific rather than ambiguous, creating a guessing game with those whom you are asking. Read More Here |
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THE TRUTH IS THE LIGHT
By Reverend Dr. Charles R. Watkins, Jr., Columnist
 Based on Biblical Text: 1 Thessalonians 3:12 (NRSV) “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.” The greatest quality in the world is love. Without love, we are nothing and cannot have abundant life. The Apostle Paul was aware of this. His prayer to God was that the Thessalonian church and its believers might grow more and more in love. Paul knew that the church that would be a model to others is a church that has a strong and abiding love. The model church exhibits an intense love for God and one another. |
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The Scandal of the Persistent ‘color line’ in American Christianity
By Robert P. Jones
 In addition to Halloween yesterday, many in the Protestant Christian world celebrated Reformation Day, commemorating when Martin Luther posted his “95 Theses” on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, Oct. 31, 1517. This is commonly understood as the precipitating event that led to the birth of Protestantism, the break from the Roman Catholic Church, which has produced, in the American context alone, about 200 denominations. With Luther as a model in Christian circles, these schisms mostly are explained in theological terms. But I’ve been thinking back to a different understanding of denominationalism that casts important light on the racial reckoning we again are facing in this country, as well as the complicity of white Christian churches that paved the way. Read More Here |
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