Reflections & Research:
Pastors of color
June 12, 2018
How I embraced my authority as an African-American woman in ministry
Overcoming stereotypes and assumptions has been difficult for a female minister in a historic African-American church. But, she writes, she was not serving the people by trying to be what others wanted her to be.
read moreabout How I embraced my authority as an African-American woman in ministrySeptember 20, 2016
How do you know when it’s time to leave?
The congregation of Turner Memorial AME Church in Hyattsville, Maryland, where Natasha Jamison Gadson recently joined the staff. Photo courtesy of Turner AME Resigning from a thriving megachurch was emotional and difficult for a minister on the staff. But once she realized that staying in a comfortable place was not the best use of her […]
read moreabout How do you know when it’s time to leave?August 25, 2015
Dominique D. Gilliard: Reclaiming the power of lament
In an age of nonstop media that exposes us as never before to the world’s pain and brokenness, lamentation is an essential and even revolutionary act, one that the church needs desperately to reclaim, says a young pastor.
read moreabout Dominique D. Gilliard: Reclaiming the power of lamentFebruary 23, 2009
25 ways to Sunday
Churches call ministers, but it takes time to grow a pastor, says the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, the legendary “dean of the nation’s black preachers.”
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