Embed from Getty Images Let me channel my inner Iyanla Vanzant for a moment. My dear sisters, beloveds, just because a brother has an R-E-V before his name does not

Embed from Getty Images It was the squeeze scrolled ‘round the Twitter-verse. When Bishop Charles H. Ellis slid his arm around singer Ariana Grande, squeezing her in an area only

Embed from Getty Images Aretha Franklin meant so much to me. She looked like us, walked like us, she was our favorite auntie. She spoke her mind. She loved God.

Let’s be honest about how many people in church feel strains of imposter syndrome, those feelings of doubt and inadequacy that we push down deep into our souls because all

First of all, mad props to Sylvester Stallone for creating a character that has endured since 1976: Rocky Balboa. I am not ashamed to admit I have seen all the

Here’s what I know to be true: following Jesus is not a “get out of life’s disappointments” free card. As Langston Hughes declared in his poem, “Mother to Son,” Life

You cannot detach the resurrection from Christianity; it is key to the faith. Jesus came, Jesus died, Jesus rose again. We would not know about Christ’s resurrection were it not

It is easy to put on the veneer of a person of great faith. We can be and present whomever we want to be on social media. But if we

One of the biblical metaphors I love the most envisions Jesus as a shepherd, guiding us, leading us, protecting us. Reflect on this for a moment: it is okay to

Women struggle to be heard and seen as equal to men. We are still struggling in terms of own reproductive rights, to be paid the same as men for the