Institutional accountability

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?

Side hustles are shaping today’s economy but one income stream rarely gets discussed: preaching. Itinerant ministry mirrors the professional speaking world, yet often operates with no structure, no documentation, and no financial accountability. When invitations become income, access becomes currency… and silence becomes strategy. This isn’t an attack on ministry it’s a call for clarity, transparency, and structural integrity. Because structure doesn’t weaken calling. Struc

Before decisions become irreversible, consider the source. A practical framework for discernment when votes and leadership choices carry lasting consequences.

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?

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

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