Enjoy Life
By Byron Washington, Columnist
I finished my doctorate in December 2021, and it came with a feeling of great joy. I was happy to be done writing and revising my dissertation. My dissertation focused on burnout in pastors, and I hope in the future to share and provide some insight from my research about how we can assist pastors in offsetting burnout. That being said, once all that was over, I took some time to enjoy life.
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HOW TO BE A LIAR
By Rev. Dr. Melinda Contreras Byrd, Contributing Writer 
Liars. We are all familiar with them. So, I am sure that some of you are surprised or curious about the title of this article. At some point, we have all told a lie. But we are not all liars. Someone likely thinks it is preposterous to write about “how to be a liar” when we know what a liar is. But perhaps we don’t! Yes, all of us have had the misfortune of interacting with liars—and even more unfortunate is the fact that some.
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Who will Help Save Our Democracy?
By Dr. Betty Holley, Contributing Writer
Not only are we experiencing a health crisis brought on by COVID-19, but also there is a fight to end democracy as we know it. As African Americans and people of color, our right to vote is being threatened at this very moment. As we remember that horrible day, January 6, 2021, the day that thousands of domestic terrorists descended on the nation’s capitol building and violently disrupted the Electoral College count. We cannot ignore members of Congress who are presently fueling false information to undermine the election results of the presential election in favor of President Joe Biden. Our democracy, at this moment, is hanging in the balance. Who will help save our democracy?
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Questioning Faith: My First Conversion
By J. Jioni Palmer, Columnist  When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
-- Ralph Ellison
As a child, I attended Bethlehem Lutheran Church in West Oakland, California, with my family. West Oakland was, and despite rampant gentrification, still is a predominantly working-class African American community.
In the 1960s, the people of West Oakland, many of them migrants from East Texas and Louisiana fleeing the choking oppression of Jim Crow, were harassed and brutalized by the Oakland Police Department. They migrated in search of better opportunities, but the material conditions hardly improved for many—rural poverty was swapped for urban poverty. As a result of these conditions, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded and headquartered blocks from Bethlehem. Twenty-three years later, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was murdered by a drug dealer not far from the sanctuary’s doors. Throughout it all, Bethlehem has stood at the intersection of the sacred and the profane.
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Meet Itinerant Elder Reverend Felicia Nanette Gross
By Mary Walton, Contributing Writer 
What was once thought was merely a passion for the field of Human Resources, the Reverend Felicia Gross realized was a much larger passion and calling to serve others, promote just treatment of all, and help others recognize and live in the fullness of their worth. She has relinquished control to her calling. She was ordained an Itinerant Elder by Bishop James L. Davis during the Second Episcopal District Hybrid Combined Ordination and Holy Sacraments on October 20, 2021.
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Philadelphia Church Mourns the Loss of Their Beloved Pastor – the Rev. Donald Burems, Sr.
By Sister Angelena Spears, 1st Episcopal District 
On Thursday October 28, members of the St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in the Paschall community of Philadelphia, said goodbye to their pastor of 17 years—the Rev. Donald Burems, Sr. Although the service was video recorded on Facebook, the church was filled with members and clergy who joined the family in celebrating his life. The Rev. Burems, 65, was the husband of Linda Davis Burems. The couple had been married 40 years and have four children and 10 grandchildren. In addition to being a pastor, he had also been a gifted musician and vocalist. During the service, one of his sons sang a signature song of his: My Soul Has Been Anchored in the Lord.
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Women in Ministry of Philadephia Host Second Annual Legacy Celebration
The Women in Ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference (PAC/WIM) held its Second Annual Legacy Celebration on September 18. During the virtual program, six women were honored for their dedicated service to the ministry.The honorees were the Rev. Alberta Jones, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Reading, Pennsylvania; the Rev. Dr. Patricia S. McAllister, pastor of Mount Zion AMEC, Columbia, Pennsylvania; the Rev. Dr. Esther L. Seales, pastor of Tyree, AMEC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Gloria Walker, pastor of Bethel AMEC, Camden, New Jersey. Retired women in ministry who were honored were the Rev. Dr. Natalie Alford (the retired presiding elder of the Philadelphia District and the Rev. Lugenere Jones, who although she is now superannuated, continues to serve as the pastor of Bensalem AME Church.
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Report from the 2022 follow-up session of the General Board and Council of Bishops
TCR Staff Report
 On January 31, 2022 the General Board reconvened virtually to complete the work outlined in resolutions presented in the December General Board meeting. Under the leadership of Bishop Paul Kawimbe (President of the General Board) and Bishop Anne E. Henning Byfield (President of the Council of Bishops and Host), the various departments, agencies, and Episcopal Districts of the AME Church gathered to hear and share updated reports from the Nominating Committee and the Department of Retirement Services respectively. Read More Here |
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Churches Lead U.S. Urban Farming Drive to Tackle Pandemic Hunger
Carey L. Biron
 Benson Ongeri has been growing vegetables on a small plot on the grounds of a church in Rochester, Minnesota, for a half-dozen years, but he hadn't seen such a sudden spike in interest from prospective new members until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The nursing student had first applied for a plot to grow vegetables from his native Kenya that he could not find in local markets, at a time when he and his family lived in an apartment with no access to land.
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