Longtime pastors, bishops, state elders, and members of the House of God Church, Keith Dominion, are standing for truth and challenging actions they believe are contrary to the church’s Decree, Constitution, procedures, and doctrine. When speaking up comes at a cost, where does leadership end and lordship begin?

For nine months, I asked one question: why? Why does a church founded by a woman who gave so much continue to wrestle with the same wounds generation after generation? This reflection considers Mother Tate’s legacy, the cost of power struggles, and the responsibility history places on every generation.

Failing upwards has no place in the Body of Christ. Adding “Inc.” to a ministry does not mean you bring corporate culture into what belongs to God.

Some lives are so intertwined with a church’s testimony that to tell the story of the House is to speak their name. This article is written to honor my aunt, Legacy of General Elder C. L. Holt a woman whose faith, sacrifice, and steady leadership helped shape generations in The House of God Church. Today, that legacy is under threat. The National Church is attempting to sell the West Park aka West Hollywood church; sacred ground tied to her labor and to the faith of the saint

For generations women carried ministries, mentored younger members, and sustained congregations through difficult seasons. Today many longtime female leaders are quietly being replaced or sidelined. This transition raises important questions about institutional memory, leadership stability, and the future of church governance.

March is Women’s History Month, a time meant to honor the women whose leadership and sacrifice helped build our institutions. Yet in many churches today, the very women who sustained ministries for decades now sit quietly in pews or remain at home while inexperienced leadership rises around them. When seasoned voices are replaced with convenient loyalty, the church does not move forward. It begins to lose its memory, its balance, and ultimately the sound doctrine that once he

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.