It is dark and getting darker. Times are as challenging as they have ever been. As we wait and walk through
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I do not know where this day’s devotion will find the reader. Many of us have come through the year 2020 with bruises and broken hearts. No one was left unscathed. However, Black and Brown bodies, Black women in particular are still left to bear the brunt of America’s newfound
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Black women always had an intimate connection with God and played a divine role in protecting and sustaining life. Before colonization, women of African descent were hunters, explorers and caretakers of the earth. They grew food and gathered water. They used their knowledge of the earth to
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In 2008 Michael E. Ross wrote a piece for The Root examining the misuse of the word/song “Kumbaya” in American politics. Ross noted that “Derision of the song and its emotional foundation has become a required sign of toughness and pragmatism in American politics today, and this is especially
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I imagine that Mary was afraid. It was scary enough that she would soon live in Joseph’s house and be his spouse. Then, she learned that she would be both a wife and a mother. And she would not be just any mother; she would be the mother of the
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Advent is the liturgical season of preparing, waiting, anticipating, and expecting. In preparation, each week during this season, we have lit a new candle to mark the drawing closer of Jesus coming into the world. We anxiously long for this time where God – Emmanuel – comes into the
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Hannah, Hannah, Hannah. Say her name. In the streets of our cities, we hear demonstrations full of marchers who chant in rhythm to ‘say her name’. In the name of justice, they are crying out to all to say the names. Hannah, Hannah, Hannah. Say her name.
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As an unapologetic Black female, senior clergy, serving on the frontlines as community pastor, advocate, and organizer in a community 200% below the poverty level, in one of the most depreciated and disenfranchised sections of Northwest Detroit, I see the age-old constant appropriation and
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In our Christian structured Bible, we know Malachi to be the last book of the Old Testament. The hermeneutics of this text is known to be one of fire and brimstone as Malachi foretells the people what our Heavenly Creator states, “surely the day is coming; it will burn like
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