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Are Black Clergy Taking a Hike on Social Reform?

By Meta J. Mereday
Every Sunday (and for some folks it is every Saturday), millions of people put on their “Sunday best” and pack the pews, padded seats, folding chairs and rough hewn benches of facilities nationwide that constitute their places of spiritual worship.
While religion is practiced the world over, the connection for Black people to their church and the Black clergy …

January 22nd, 2011

Bishop Eddie Long Controversy Should Not Destroy Faith

By Todd A. Smith
Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in suburban Atlanta, coerced four males into sexual relationships are riveting the nation. Some have even said if the allegations facing Bishop Eddie Long are true it will rock the entire Black church with catastrophic consequences.
For years, many critics of the church have said that …

October 13th, 2010





Are Online Church Services O.K. With God?

By Tom Borgstrom
More and more people are using online church services as a means to worship and hear God’s word. Is it O.K. to interact this way regarding our church involvement?
Let me give you a brief background about myself. I have been a Christian for over 20 years and have been involved in several ministries related to the church from leading …

March 13th, 2010

What Do We Want Kids to Learn Through Church Curriculum?

By Aleena Denison
When examining kids’ church curriculum, I’ve found that there seems to be a consistent list of objectives. I’ve narrowed it down to three primary objectives:
• Salvation The goal is to help children understand their need for salvation
• God’s Word The objective is to teach kids that God’s Word is the absolute truth
• Behavior The idea is to teach children how they should act …

December 12th, 2009

Video: Bowing to Babylon Pt. 2

Please note that there are many god­ly Ro­man Catholic Chris­tians whom God counts as His chil­dren. There have al­so been many gra­cious and coura­geous popes who loved God. This video is not an at­tack up­on Catholics. It is an at­tack up­on the dev­il, who lures church­es away from scrip­tural truth. How­ev­er, God Him­self has told us that this in­sti­tu­tion has a mark we dare not …

October 17th, 2009

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