The newspaper has reported that a lifeline in Haiti now lies in ruins. This lifeline are the churches across Haiti’s southern peninsula whose edifices were destroyed by an earthquake on August 14.
Read moreAn ABCMNY Statement Against Expressions of Racially Motivated Violence
The following statement is an outgrowth and co-creation of an ABCMNY Ministers Group, an informal community of regular and occasional participants, who have gathered weekly since the pandemic began in the Spring of 2020, for support, collaboration, and to discuss a variety of timely topics.
Read moreA message regarding COVID-19.
Faithful friends, let us not give up on all that gives us strength. I believe without a doubt that God will meet us in our holy spaces. God always does.
Read moreEpiphany 2020
The wonder of the babe we adored in the manger will grow into its fullness within us if we let it. Epiphany is here!
Read moreWe don't rest on our laurels.
We are called to remember—and to live out—particularly during times when religious institutions (read Baptist churches) are ridiculed, ignored, have lost their luster, and are looked upon with askance, that WE are called to be ever mindful of the foreboding presence or injustice, to heed our call to do justice, love kindness, and to leave our Imprints of Peace as we walk gently on the earth.
Read moreThe Anointing
With the authority of a prophet and a priest, she anointed Jesus, from head to toe. Scriptures report that Jesus was moved by her priestly act and said, “She has done a beautiful thing.”
Read moreGod helps those who CANNOT help themselves.
In continuation of this Women’s History Month and Lenten series around women in the bible, I am drawn to one of my “go-to” sisters who is depicted in three of the Gospel accounts, as a woman with issues.
Read morePreach like a Grrrlll!
The woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus, in his own thirst, asked her for a drink. I would have loved to be a fly on that well.
Read moreTransforming Our Ashes into Beauty – International Women's Day
This year, during March and for Lent, I am choosing to remember and study women in particular. Women have been key characters, sages, and figures in scripture and in our faith communities that have inspired us to greater faith, courage, deeper learning, and hope. Perhaps you will join me in this practice this month?
Read moreCharlottesville—Our American Baptist Witness
In witnessing the actions too horrible to comprehend, and impossible to stop considering, thinking and feeling people have needed to ask ourselves, who are we really, as a country—and as a people residing on the same soil? Our incomplete historical memories are infused with mythology and aspirations of who we are. Have we forgotten who we really have been historically, and replaced it with who we want to be as a nation and as a people of this nation? Who we say we are, and who want to be are not necessarily the same.
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