FEATURES

12  BOUNCE BACK: UNDER-ESTIMATED
by Kim Logan-Nowlin / How the Word of God rescued this woman from certain death.

13  DRY BONES TO LIVING FLESH
by Timothy Golden / Live to inspire. Tribute to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

14  MLK50 CHECKUP
by Malcom Luther / Fifty years beyond the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., America is in stage four denial.

16  ALLIES
by David Person / Abolitionists to Allies, what it means to struggle together.

18  FAITH, FAMILY AND FINANCES
by Alva James-Johnson / Civil rights gains rested on the back of this three-point prescription.

20  CHURCH MUSIC MADNESS
by Patti Thomas Conwell / Two-time “Choir of the
World” director Jason Max Ferdinand brings sanity back to the service.

22  FINDING GOD IN A CHURCH
by Michael Polite / Millions of people hate church because they’ve never been taught to be a member.

22  NATIVE TONGUE
by Donald L. McPhaull / Speaking in tongues, and how God’s

FAVORITES

4  ELEVATION
by Phillip McGuire Wesley / MEDIA THAT TAKES YOU HIGHER

5  EDITORIAL
by Carmela Monk Crawford / PERSEVERE AND PROSPER

6  EYE ON THE TIMES
• PROTESTANTS WHO STOPPED PROTESTING
• WHICH POLITICAL PARTY HAS THE RELIGIOUS CORNER ON THE MARKET?

8  OPTIMAL HEALTH
by Donna Green Goodman / RIGHT FROM THE START

11  RELATIONSHIP Rx
by Willie and Elaine Oliver / TRADE-IN VALUES

24  FUTURECAST
by Carlton Byrd / LOVE LETTER #9 TO TELL THE TRUTH

26  THE EXPERIENCE
by Ellen G. White / MY FATHER’S BUSINESS

28  THE EXPERIENCE BIBLE STUDY
by Rashad Burden / LOST AND FOUND

29  POWER PLAYS
by Samuel Thomas, Jr. / ELIJAH: FIRE FROM HEAVEN