Faith & Values
NNPA EXCLUSIVE: ‘We Must Have a New Poor People’s Campaign and Moral Revival’
By Bishop William J. Barber, II, President, Repairers of the Breach Channeling the incisive analysis of our best historians, TaNehisi Coates cut through the talking points of political pundits last week to name Donald Trump America’s “First White president.” Writing for The Atlantic, the National Book Award recipient made clear how there could be no…
Read MoreThe 107th Session of the Palmetto South Carolina Annual Conference to convene September 6-9
The Lowcountry welcomes the Rt. Reverend Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr., Presiding Prelate and Mrs. Phyllis N. Green, Episcopal Supervisor of the Seventh Episcopal District, visiting Bishops, Presiding Elders, Delegates, Alternates, Youth Delegates and Laity to the 107th Session of the Palmetto South Carolina Annual Conference. Bishop Green, the 125th elected and consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist…
Read MoreHonest Talk About Charleston’s History and Ways to Move Forward Together: Living Your Truth Series returns September 26
On Tuesday, September 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Emanuel AME Church, 110 Calhoun Street, The Social Justice Racial Equity (SJRE) Collaborative’s Living Your Truth conversation series returns with more audience interaction and action steps from Rev. Nelson B. Rivers, III & Judge Alex Sanders. Charleston’s civil rights leaders, Reverend Nelson B. Rivers, III and Judge Alex…
Read More‘Powerful Tools for Caregivers’ Leader Training Set for October in Summerville
The ARK, Alzheimer’s Family Support Services, is hosting a two-day leaders class for the Powerful Tools for Caregivers program. This two-day training prepares and certifies individuals to successfully co-lead the six-week Powerful Tools for Caregivers class series. The next leader training will be 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 12-13 at The ARK, 206 Central…
Read MoreGospel Music Legend Shirley Caesar Returns To Charleston August 13
By Tolbert Smalls, Jr. The “Crowned Queen of Gospel Music” Shirley Caesar will make her much-anticipated return to Charleston on Sunday, August 13 at The Charleston Music Hall. Presented by Restoration Ministries, Caesar will be joined in concert by Nancy Wilson, Lemmie Battles, Duranice Pace, Carolyn Henton, Bernardo Snipes and Charleston’s Queen of Gospel –…
Read MoreReverend James Tolbert Celebrates 90 Years of Life
By Kurt Walker A gathering of family and friends came together this past Saturday to celebrate the 90th birthday of Reverend James E. Tolbert. The event was held in the fellowship hall of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church on Nassau Street where Tolbert serves as an associate minister. The program for the occasion was featured several members…
Read MoreLiberty Hill Churches Come Together For Stop The Violence Fish Fry
By Barney Blakeney Churches in the Liberty Hill community of North Charleston are joining in unity to address violent crime that has resulted in the deaths of numerous residents of the neighborhood. Abyssinia Baptist Church, Charity Missionary Baptist Church, Little Bethel Pentecostal Church, Royal Missionary Baptist Church and St. Peters AME Church have come together…
Read MoreThe Mission of the Democratic Faith Working Group
By Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) Growing up in a church parsonage, the eldest son of a fundamentalist Christian minister, grounded me securely in faith and family. My dad’s sermons, which were based in Old Testament scriptures as often as they were in the New Testament, offered up pretty big doses of Judeo-Christian doctrines that…
Read MoreUtah Muslim Leader Back in U. S. After Nightmare of ‘No-fly’ Order is Rescinded
(TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) – You could call it a Ramadan gift. What began as a nightmare for Utah Muslim leader Yussuf Awadir Abdi ended with a joyous reunion on the tarmac of the Salt Lake City International Airport. His community, members of the Refugee Justice League of Utah and a lawsuit by the Council on American-Islamic Relations had…
Read MoreRamadan, the Magnificent Month Begins
By Imam Al-Hajj Hakim Abdul-Ali Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic yearly calendar, is due to begin this Friday evening, May 26, 2017, starting at sunset, signaling the beginning of the world’s largest religion’s annual sacred fasting period. The disciplined fasting experience from dawn to sunset is what the adherents of Islam,…
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