Pure Church

This is a video clip from Cone's appearance at Tavis Smiley 's State of the Black Union a few years back. I can agree with some of C...

Vincent Bacote, Associate Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, has published a kind and helpful critique of The Decline of African Ame...

the potential "resurrection" of Henry Lyons inside the National Baptist Convention, the largest African-American denomination in t...

With my silence or inactivity on this series, you'd be right to wonder if I didn't have much to say about the African-American churc...

How would you define "faith"? How would you know faith when you see it? Though I think many people could give some general definit...

and the cross-fertilization she shares with the wider church, our brother Wyeth Duncan is meditating on AME liturgy and its indebtedness to...

Yesterday, February 1st, began African-American history month. The annual celebration of African-American history began at the initiative of...

The Cleveland Plain Dealer takes up the issue of African-American churches fighting for relevance and effectiveness in inner-city contexts. ...

Stephen Nichols, an excellent and winsome historian, recently visited a Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lancaster (named after ...

Imagine falling into a coma and waking 30 years later. Imagine shaking off the slumber and asking, "What's going on with the church...

While washing up the dishes with my wife the other night, conversation turned again to the U.S. presidential election and the whole Obama-Wr...

A partial transcript of Eric Redmond's discussion of Jeremiah Wright on the Al Mohler radio show is available here . The radio interview...

Anthony Carter has quickly and easily become one of my favorite people in the world. All who know him know him by that big smile, gracious...

I never get tired of reading that moniker!! There is something about powerful, Spurgeonesque, sound preaching in Africa that is just plain ...

Today, we continue our interview series with brother Lance Lewis, pastor of Christ Liberation Fellowship in Philadelphia, PA. I first met ...

Thanks to all those who read and/or commented on the series of posts on reforming the African-American church. It was good to read people’s ...

I'm going to turn my attention away from writing about reforming the African-American church for a while. The comments and engagement b...

The short answer is "yes." The longer answer is: "but we can't start by assuming that what is popularly referred to as th...

Well, it's time to revisit and complete this series of posts. Lord willing, in this post, I'll offer some preliminary thoughts or pr...

Beliefnet recently published their list of "who's who" in African-American spiritual circles (HT: Tim Challies). It's an i...