The Holiday Season Is Here. Let’s Try To Find Some Joy And Peace.
By James B. Ewers Jr. Ed.D.
 We have just celebrated Thanksgiving with our family and friends. It was festive and fun. The food was tasty and was a buffet of delightful dishes. Living in the Crescent City meant for our family that one of the dishes was gumbo. This tradition of Thanksgiving is rich and has been with us for years and is the start of the holiday season. Black Friday sales reserved for the day after Thanksgiving began weeks ago. A historical report says that back in the 1950s, police in Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year. |
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Is Trumpism Dead?
By Quardricos Driskell, Columnist
Democrats were slated to get a shellacking this mid-term election, and Republicans were widely expected to win the House overwhelmingly and possibly take control of the U.S. Senate in what has been forecasted as a “red wave.” Indeed, that was not the case. Historically, since the Civil War, the president’s party has lost seats at every midterm except for a few times. And this is one of those times. In August, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said, “I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different statewide, and candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.” Read More Here |
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REVIVING THE COMMISSION ON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
By Cynthia Gordon-Floyd, C.P.A., C.F.E.
 On pages 240-241 of The Doctrine and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2016 (Discipline), we find in the section on Connectional Departments and Commissions, the Commission on Financial Management Program. This Commission would consist of nine (9) persons who must possess the formal education and professional experience to provide the expertise required to perform the duties of this commission. The Discipline lists eight (8) duties of this commission designed to provide financial oversight, policies, and procedures. This commission was brought to my attention more than six months ago, and I found the items below to be especially pertinent:
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A Thrill of Hope. The Weary World Rejoices!
By Rev. Jason D. Thompson, PhD, Contributing Writer
Whether you learned it as a child while reciting your part in the Christmas play, through a sermon, or even from Linus and the Peanuts gang in A Charlie Brown Christmas, you know the story about the day we call Christmas, the day we celebrate the birth of a Savior. The challenge of this story is that it may have become so familiar to us that we might carelessly gloss over the beauty, truth and reason for celebration that the story demands. Perhaps, instead, we can accept the challenge to avoid the mistake that Frederick Buechner warns when he suggests that “it’s so easy to look and see what we pass through in the world, but we don’t. If you’re like me, you see so little.
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PAYNE SEMINARY’S FACULTY & STAFF RETREAT ON MENTAL WELLNESS
Rev. Dr. Betty Holley
 The COVID-19 pandemic placed tremendous stress on theological schools and churches as well as the wider communities they serve. Presidents and deans have noted that the pandemic has made visible many points of stress and conflict in their school’s historic educational approaches. Christopher Coble, Lilly Endowment Vice President for religion stated, “The COVID-19 pandemic amplified the pressures experienced by most theological schools. The Endowment seeks to support theological schools as they design and implement plans to address the challenges that are most pressing for them and the congregations they serve.” Read More Here |
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The Work Is All Divine
Reverend Jarrett Britton Washington, M.Div., MACE, Columnist 
The spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33:4 I’ve been blessed to serve as the elected Annual Conference Secretary for the Palmetto South Carolina Annual Conference of the Seventh Episcopal District for the past six years. Statistically, the Palmetto South Carolina Annual Conference is one of the largest annual conferences in the southern United States. The annual conference consists of 103 pastoral appointments, a membership of over 28,000 men, women, and children of God, over 300 traveling elders and deacons, local elders and deacons and licentiates, and three presiding elder districts covering five counties. The direct task of the recording secretary of the annual conference is to help expedite the transaction of the business of the conference. Read More Here |
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The Rural Church Still Counts as one of God’s favored: Working in the vineyard proves Spiritual Key Vision
 Payne AME Church in Chatham New York Celebrated their 173rd Anniversary on Saturday October 1, 2022. We paused for a few hours to celebrate our relationship with community partners, our brothers and sisters in faith, and friends and family to enjoy the love, and respectful fellowship between us we all intentionally nurture. This fellowship relationship has been present down though history, and did not diminish, but blossomed during the most recent height of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have done prayer walks, prayed on prayer lines, and lobbied for better broad ban. We helped members learn how to get on zoom. Read More Here |
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September Edition of The Christian Recorder |
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Department of Research and Scholarship Receives $1 Million Dollar Lilly Foundation Grant
 A grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. will help the Department of Research and Scholarship of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to establish the Compelling Preaching in the 21st Century Project - The Power of a Thinking Church! Under the leadership of Reverend Teresa Fry Brown, Ph.D., this grant will assist the Department of Research and Scholarship of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in exploring, enhancing, and expanding the gospel with a balance of bibliocentric, ethnographic, and exegesis of the Biblical text, and quarterly Learning Labs. Read More Here |
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Fort Washington, Maryland: The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in the Association of African Methodist Episcopal Scouts (AAMES) planned and executed a successful 1st Annual 5K In-Person/Virtual Run-Walk Race
 Troops and units in African Methodist Episcopal Churches in Maryland, DC, Virginia and Illinois embarked upon their first campaign to generate $25,000 to fight against Breast Cancer. Scouts chose Indigenous Peoples Weekend, to focus attention on Breast Cancer, their charitable cause, impacting females and males in Black and brown families in their local communities. Races took place at the Fort Washington National Park (Maryland), Fox Valley Park District (Aurora, IL), Lisle Park District (Lisle, IL), and Bolingbrook – Hidden Lakes Trout Farm (Bolingbrook, IL). The crisp fall chill in the air did not deter scouts from taking the 3.1 mile run/walk.
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Womanist theologian Delores Williams dies at 88
 Delores Williams, one of the founders of womanist theology, died on November 17 at the age of 88. Williams, a Presbyterian, taught theology at Union Theological Seminary for 13 years until her retirement in 2004. Before that, she taught at the historically Black Fisk University in Nashville. Read More Here |
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