The recent murder of nine church members to include the pastor, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina has hurt me deeply. I am aching in places I cannot touch and for which I don’t believe that there is a salve on the market. It is one thing to […]
A race-less life is a prayer- filled life. In order to stand strong in my conviction that God created us outside of the categories of race and without the social coloring of skin, I bow my head and bend my knees. I could not open my mouth if I did not first fill my mouth […]
Luke writes, “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.”[1] “O God of earth and altar,”[2] of blessing and sacrifice, our “living hope”[3] in […]
I have been given the opportunity to share with another community of believers through the publishers at Smith & Helwys. Each month, I write a column on prayer from the feminine perspective called Pray- Her, wherein I talk about the life and the leadings of prayer. While I am certainly devoted to the message and […]
God of the resurrection and of the resurrected people, we bless Your name and raise the standard of our affection. This is Your day. Let Your praises rise this day. Let Your glory rise this day. Let the fragrance of Your sweet Spirit rise this day. Because we have entered into Your house with the […]