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Black Women on the Front Line in the Black Church: This Is Not Someone Else’s Issue
Black women have long strengthened the Black Church. Today, growing disengagement is shifting influence, leadership, and accountability across congregations. What happens when fewer voices speak up and how does it reshape the future of the church?
Mar 192 min read


Consider the Source: A Practical Framework for Truth‑Seeking When Decisions Can’t Be Undone Discernment in Leadership
Before decisions become irreversible, consider the source. A practical framework for discernment when votes and leadership choices carry lasting consequences.
Feb 242 min read


The Black Church as Community Infrastructure - Collective Responsibility Beyond Membership
The Black Church has long been a foundation within our communities, shaping lives far beyond Sunday worship. Even if you no longer attend, its legacy may have shaped you. What might thoughtful reengagement look like today?
Feb 213 min read


The Birth and Expansion of the Black Church in an Era of Racial Terror and Institutional Construction
The Black Church did not emerge in comfort. It was built during slavery, expanded under racial terror, and institutionalized during Reconstruction and Jim Crow. Through land ownership, disciplined governance, and collective sacrifice, it became the foundation of Black civic, economic, and spiritual resilience in America.
Feb 204 min read


Have We Rebuilt the Slave Pew at the Back of the Church
A reflection on how historic segregation in sacred spaces may be resurfacing today through silence, hierarchy, and the marginalization of the very builders who sustained the Black church. During Black History Month, I want to talk about something many people have never been taught. In many white churches in the 18th and 19th centuries, the upper balcony was not just extra seating. It was often a forced separation. Enslaved people and free Black worshippers were pushed into lo
Feb 202 min read


The Aging Black Church: Institutional Responsibility to the Generation That Built It
“Without Their Sacrifice: Aging and Accountability in the Black Church” The aging population within the Black Church represents a generation that constructed, financed, and sustained religious institutions during Jim Crow, World War I, World War II, and the pre-Civil Rights era. These churches were not simply houses of worship. They were centers of education, political organizing, economic cooperation, and physical protection at a time when broader American systems excluded B
Feb 164 min read


Property, Power, and Gentrification in Historic Black Churches
How a 122-Year-Old Black Church Is Being Used to Dismantle the Communities It Was Built to Protect - The House of God Church and Its Historical Significance The House of God Church, formally known as The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Without Controversy, Keith Dominion, is one of the most historically significant Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. Founded in 1903 by Mother Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the church was revolutiona
Feb 166 min read
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