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

“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