The Multitude, The Master, & The Method
byPrinciples and Best-Practices for Launching a Community-Based Ministry “And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion…
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Coping With Dysfunctional Families
byIn the 5th grade I won the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) essay contest. I don’t remember what my paper was about or what…
When They GEN Us
by“He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To do justice, love mercy, and to…
Rediscovering Yahweh as an Afrofuturist
byRediscovering Yahweh as an Afrofuturist, a God who cares about my past, my present and my future. We all come to a point in…
If You Want Him to Stay, Leave
byI am going to tell you something I typically only share with very close friends, or girls who are crying in the public restroom….
Leading and Living From Here
byIn leadership, just like living, we simply land at the next lesson to learn, having learned and grown through the last lesson. In Proverbs…
The Debate That’s Beyond Impossible
byBefore Popeye’s and Chik Fil-A, Message food editor Donna Green-Goodman’s parent’s made the best vegan “sammich” in town. Donna dishes on what it means…
A Lesson on Exercise From an 88-Year Old Champion
byFor several years I worked in a nursing home. Daily there were six or seven elderly residents lining the halls in wheelchairs. They were…
Ditch the Scheduling and Go on an Adventure With God
byIf there’s one thing I’ve learned about life it’s that it is utterly unpredictable. Rarely, is it ever as neat as we’d like it…
Exchanging the Truth for a Lie in These Perilous Times
byBlack women are growing increasingly skeptical of mainline Christianity At 13 I innocently became a catalyst for change in the Seventh-day Adventist church when…