Religion

Since 1999, Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where the author has served as pastor for over twenty years, has had an HIV/AIDS ministry program called the AGAPE Program. Agape is Greek for "God's love" and an acronym for Action, Growth,...

There is nothing like the pain of feeling like you are not enough. This pain is amplified when you have given yourself to others only to have them use and abuse you. "The Bodyguard of My Heart," is a poetic conversation between Tamika Hall and God. It is...

In most of Ben's experiences, the humble Southern chefs share their long protected family recipes but it's not an adventure if everyone cooperates. Some of these institutions guard their recipes like members of the family.To the untrained eater, the...

Anti-black racism is a central ethical crisis of our time. In this volume, leading experts explore how Christian ideas, practices, and institutions can contribute to today's struggle for racial justice and how those ideas, practices, and institutions...

Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in...

Following her great-grandmothers' examples of creatively stretching meals during the Great Depression, Whitney Miller transforms recipes from her Southern roots by preserving flavors of traditional family dishes and offering the excitement of her own...

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most...

After a speech at UMass Amherst on February 28, 1984, James Baldwin was asked by a student: You said that the liberal façade and being a liberal is not enough. Well, what is? What is necessary? Baldwin responded, Commitment. That is what is...

Ego is the feeling of being separate from God, from that which is, Since we feel we are separate or distinct from the Creator, as well as creation itself, there is no sense of connection with our inner essence, with the thing that has been in existence...

Spirituals, songs of abiding faith passed down by African Americans through the centuries, offer a remarkable view of resilience, courage, and love. Formed in the crucible of fire, these songs express the suffering and horror of slavery as well as the...

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.Many of us want to do something to improve race relations, but we don't know where to start or even if we can make a difference. In Life-Changing Cross-Cultural Friendships, beloved authors and good...

A modern-day devotional of 52 inspiring stories and captivating art from the New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart.

Why do we care more about winning than about playing by the rules? Integrity - all of us are in favor of it, but nobody seems to know how to make sure that we get it. From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate...

The Connection Point is a folklore that tells about who the Niger is and where the people known by that name came from. How important is a name to people? A name is a very powerful vehicle that identifies the people or their tribe. It gives us a history...

Pastor, award-winning author, and rising civil rights leader Michael W. Waters (Stakes Is High, For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World) ruminates on the sacred places and spaces he visited as part of a cross-country trek in the summer of...