When our Culture Becomes our Cancer
By Rev. J Edgar Boyd, Pastor, FAME Church of Los Angeles
(In response to a recent TCR editorial)
“On the Matter of the Rev. Dr. Jerome Harris.”
 Dear editor, your recent editorial, On the Matter of the Rev. Dr. Jerome Harris,” was most timely and appropriate in the wake of allegations surrounding the absence of a substantial portion of the AME Church’s retirement resources. It is telling that a significant number of the salaried and non-salaried members of the AME Church are reluctant to publicly address the issue at hand, but are driven to the false safety offered in a refuge of silence. It is painfully difficult to fathom the irreparable injury sustained by many retiring clerical servants who bear a double dolor; no access to their hard-earned retirement savings, and now, what appears to be a callous unwillingness on the part of our system to hold the perpetrator(s) to a proper reckoning. |
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Insecure
Robbie Colson-Ramsey, Contributing Writer
I spent the entire 4th of July weekend binge-watching HBO's TV show Insecure (don't come for me, I know the show is old, but I did not have HBO). It was a show about two friends, Molly and Issa, living with insecurities and navigating through the joys and sorrows of friendship as two Black women in Los Angles. While the show has no direct connection to the role of first spouses in the church, it helps you explore the relationships of first spouses and their significance to the church community as we navigate there our joys and sorrows of life–and insecurities–while in the eye-view of the church members.
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Philadelphia Suburban Church Engages in Outreach to Local HBCU
By Angelena Spears, Philadelphia Conference Reporter
 When Cheyney University students stopped by the Thornbury African Methodist Episcopal Church table during a recent health fair on campus, they received much more than free COVID-19 vaccines. They received an authentic invitation to visit the church, which is within walking distance of the university. Thornbury AMEC is in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, a suburban community 17 miles west of Philadelphia. The church is within a mile of the university, which touts itself as the oldest standing historically black college and university in the United States. |
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The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Mid-Year Conference 2023
By Rev. Solomon J.G Nxumalo – Retired Presiding Elder (Eswatini Annual Conference)
 The 2023 Mid Year Conference of the 18th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church met in Maseru, Lesotho, on 19-21 April 2023 under the Quadrennial theme “God Our Healer.” At this Mid Year Conference, the emphasis was on Year Three: “Healing Our Minds.”
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The History of St. James Ame Church Texarkana, Arkansas
By Rev. Larry Ross, 12th Episcopal District
 St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church in Texarkana, Arkansas, has a very strange history. The church and the city of Texarkana were founded in the same year. Texarkana in April and St. James in August of 1873. As a memorial to our foreparents and the pioneers of the present church, we are handing down this record of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church. According to the Arkansas State Registry Office, St. James AME Church is probably the first but truly the oldest black church in Texarkana, Arkansas. The church was established at 617 Laurel Street in the Bannister home in 1873. |
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June Edition of The Christian Recorder |
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| Election results from the 20th Quadrennial of the Women's Missionary Society. |
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Gratitude and Vote of Thanks for the 38th Biennial Session
By MA Makiti, CLO President
 As we recap the success of the Lay Organization 38th Biennial Convention of the Connectional Lay Organization held, on June 26-30, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. On behalf of the Connectional Lay Organization, we were excited to see each of you, and thank Almighty God for enabling us to travel globally to attend the 38th Biennial Session. We are grateful to our Lord and Savior for his traveling. Mercies and protection over us. We are happy that the Lord made it possible, and for that, we give God honor and glory.
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I have always been very active in all aspects of the church on various levels. This would be my opportunity to finally experience my first YPD/WMS Quadrennial. I was looking forward to this experience and giving of my time and talents, but I was also a bit nervous. I can remember my mother, Mrs. Bridgette Trawick, always talking about the experiences, connections, and friendships one makes which will last for a lifetime. She eased my worries by telling me it was like a big family reunion, seeing new and familiar faces from all over the connectional level and we were all there for one common goal.
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The Supreme Court’s colorblindness
It's a different colorblindness than the one envisioned in King's 'Dream' speech.
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
 The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina comes in a year of 60th anniversaries in American civil rights history. Martin Luther King’s letter from the Birmingham jail, the assassination of NAACP Field Secretary Medger Evers in Mississippi, the Detroit “Walk to Freedom” march organized by the Rev. C. L. Franklin and, tragically, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, also in Birmingham, all took place in 1963, as did the assassination of the pro-civil rights president John F. Kennedy. Read More Here |
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