In mid-March, as news of the pandemic began sweeping our country, our congregation closed the doors of our building and began meeting online. Each week, I recorded three short videos to encourage our relatively aged …

In the early 1920s, something powerful was happening in Harlem, New York. In a period later esteemed the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem became a cultural mecca for African American literature, music, art, and intellectual thought.[i]Disillusioned by the failed promises of economic reconstruction and continued …

by Susan Converse

The telephone rings, piercing the silence of the night.  You jump out of bed. Your heart is racing, and you pick up the phone.  The voice on the other end tells you that …

by Jimmy Arthur Atkins

The Holy Bible offers a treasure chest of case studies and examples of leadership—good and bad. While there are many secular definitions of leadership, I distinguish …

by Patty Christiena Willis

Many times I have heard people say, “The United States is a melting pot.” Those words have always been spoken with a positive facial expression.  What do they mean?  Why would I …

by Ruth Shaffer

I am grateful for having been born into a family with little.  We had powdered milk and government cheese. Remember the big blocks of government cheese?  The cheese that was supposed to …

by Nelson Rivera

Let us begin with some questions. When we gather for worship, what do we think we are doing? In other words, what is our gathering for? Just thinking of the ways that diverse …

by Efrain Agosto
 
On September 20, 2017, a devastating hurricane, known as Hurricane Maria, made landfall on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, leaving behind unimaginable destruction. This just two weeks to the day after a …

by Elieser Valentin
 
This article takes a first step in building a Puerto Rican pastoral theology from the diaspora by extrapolating from the experiences of a predominantly Puerto Rican Baptist congregation in New York City as …

by Altagracia Pérez-Bullard
 
Desterrada: the word that came to mind when reflecting upon the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the people and the island of Puerto Rico in the fall of 2017. Yet this …

by Damaris Whittaker
 
Then I said unto them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and …

by John Herbst
 
“Every dream represents a wish as fulfilled. Thanks to a relative relaxation of censorship in sleep, a dream expresses repressed desires whose satisfaction is forbidden during the waking state.”
—Sigmund Freud
Freud’s statement rings true …