My friend, the Rev. Jacob Breeze, has a phrase that describes the absence of a critical element that defines an institution. Jacob says, “it’s the thing without the thing that makes the thing the thing.” An example would be decaffeinated …
Tag: Love
Scriptural Christianity
On June 19, 2016, the 150th Anniversary of the first Juneteenth, Rev. Sean J. Nickleberry stepped into the pulpit of Hope AME in Prairie View, Texas. A century and a half earlier, news that slavery in the United States was …
Your Church Can Faithfully Battle Xenophobia
This presidential campaign season—as in no other of recent memory—Xenophobic, exclusionary, fear of the Other has been used by politicians in an attempt to garner votes. Xenophobia is more than a matter of preference for people whom we enjoy hanging …
Joining Principles
Peace and Love Will Reconcile Differences In the midst of all differences of judgment, and weaknesses of the saints, it is not impossible that we may live in peace and love together.
