First African Methodist Episcopal Church

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

Homosexuality is not the only sin prohibited in the Bible, but it is different from all the rest, at least right now. And we have really good news for homosexuals.

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality

There is a lot of unnecessary confusion about what the Bible is really saying about homosexuality. Dr. Michael Brown offers five key scriptural truths that dismantle the modern-day argument that God's Word condones the homosexual ...

What Is a Healthy Way to Leave a Church?

Leaving the church is painful for Christians and pastors, and we've seen a lot of it over the last couple of years through COVID, election crises, and racial crises.

10 Ways to Teach Kids to Sit in Church

Want to take your kids to church with you? Find out how to learn to go to "big church." Worship, learn, and serve together. Kids can love going to church.

Single mums finding acceptance in church

The days of castigating unmarried women with kids are ending

Is God male? Episcopal Church might say no

(Fox 32 News) - The Episcopal Church is debating whether to overhaul the Book of Common Prayer to make it clear that God does not have a gender.

10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About the Episcopal Church

An Episcopal priest talks liturgy, drinking habits, the Bible and more.

How to preach difficult doctrines without splitting your church — Southern Equip

Faithful doctrinal teaching always starts with the text, not a system.

‘Church must take the risk of identifying with the poor,’ says Welby

[Lambeth Palace press release] The Church must take the risk of siding with the poor and vulnerable, or it will be ignoring what God wants, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said yesterday …

10 Reasons Why You Should Underprogram Your Church

The "simple church" is able to cast off that which entangles it, even the religious nets of its own devising for the fishing for men, and follow Christ wherever he may go.

Being Church when we can't be in church

St. Peter's may be closed, but it doesn't mean that worship isn't continuing...

Can attending church really help you live longer? This study says yes

A recent study by Vanderbilt University professor Marino Bruce has found that people who attend religious services live longer and are less stressed.

Nine Technological Trends Every Church Should Consider

For too long, many churches have not only been technologically deficient, but technologically averse. But many churches are now catching up.

On Religion: Doing the global United Methodist math

For more than 30 years, the Reconciling Ministries Network has openly opposed United Methodist teachings that marriage is the “union of one man and one woman” and “the practice of…

Why You Should Join an Imperfect Church

We need the body of Christ to grow and to know what it means to be a mature Christian.

Is God Visible In Your Church?