Ten years ago this month, Pastor Clementa Pinckney and eight church members of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., were murdered in a racist act by someone who believed lies about American history and its diverse people….
Did Jesus really say that?
During some of the hardest days of racial tension in in the 1960s, a Mississippi Delta white pastor in his frustration one day asked one of his stalwart members what she thought Jesus would do if Black people came to…
Leadership reminders from a country cemetery
Recently I returned to Mississippi to preach at the United Methodist church I served immediately out of seminary. I turned 23 shortly after moving in. It’s a country church in Southwest Mississippi not unlike the one where I grew up….