The Old Black Church

When Mara Louk told an administrator at Visible Music College, where she was a senior, that a male classmate had choked and raped her last November, she expected that school officials would help her file a police report and arrange a safety plan. Instead, she said in a federal complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday, administrators at Visible, a Christian college in Memphis, Tennessee, accused her of breaking school rules against premarital sex with a different student, an ex-boyfriend. She denied having sex with him but said the school threatened to expel her unless she signed a confession and finished the school year remotely. Visible Music College administrators also told her they would not remove the accused student from her classes because police didn’t arrest him, nor would they conduct a Title IX investigation because the alleged assault happened off-campus. And administrators attempted to bar Louk from telling anyone else at the school that she had

Magic Johnson said Dr. Anthony Fauci was one of the doctors who helped him understand and treat HIV after his 1991 diagnosis. The 62-year-old basketball legend said it was Fauci and Dr. David Ho, a renowned researcher and virologist, who helped him understand the diagnosis. He also explained that he revealed his diagnosis to help the public and to increase the accessibility of resources and medications for people who could not afford the level of treatment that he could. . @MagicJohnson shares how he "leaned on" Dr. Anthony Fauci for guidance after his HIV diagnosis in 1991: "He knew how I could get better and be here for a long time." "I'm living proof that he was right," he adds. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/0eVxqyKiXp — The View (@TheView) April 27, 2022

Religion is a business and nothing more. Churches should have to pay taxes /property taxes just like any other business. The article talks about their lifestyle becoming more lavish as the church grew and prospered...of course it did, just another Jim and Tammy fae Baker. Celebration Church, one of the biggest churches in the Jacksonville FL area, on Monday released findings from an internal investigation into its founding pastor, Stovall Weems. The church and Weems have been in a civil court battle that includes allegations of financial misconduct and fraud. “The single word used most frequently to describe Stovall Weems was ‘narcissist.’ 

On this past Sunday, Bishop Charles E. Blake turns West Angeles Church leadership over to his son. As the Senior Pastor of West Angeles Church, I have led and served this great church daily for more than 53 years. However; most recently I am acutely aware that my Parkinson’s diagnosis is impacting my physical stature and vocal strength. With this in mind, I want to share a few thoughts, with you, my West Angeles Family, and my Community. Many individuals with Parkinson’s continue to live long, satisfying lives. I will continue to serve my congregation just as I have before my announcement. I will continue to preach the Gospel, rotating as I have with my sons, Co-Pastor Charles E. Blake II and Young Adult Pastor Lawrence C. Blake, and the Clergy of West Angeles Church. Lady Mae and our children have been steadfast in supporting me during this time. The administrative and ministry staff of West Angeles continue to work with dedication and love to serve and minister to this great congre

The Kingdom of God Global Church in Michigan run by Pastor David E. Taylor of Joshua Media Ministries International who was once deposed for corruption has purchased an $8.3 million mansion in Tampa, Florida, from Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner Darcie Glazer Kassewitz and her husband.  The church appears to have purchased Bucs co-owner's former Avila home. The palatial estate is roughly the size of Publix Super Markets Inc.'s smallest stores —and almost identical in size to its store on Bayshore Boulevard in downtown Tampa.   Avila is a luxury residential community of over 400 homes in North Tampa. It is among the city's most exclusive addresses. The community is home to a members-only golf and country club, but there is no commercial or public use real estate within Avila. A representative from the Avila property owners' association was not immediately available for comment Friday.

 Maverick City Music Chandler Moore is denying and downplaying his culture for a mainly white audience, which doesn’t characterize restraint, it characterizes oppression. So Chandler Moore is catching a lot of deserved pushback for the below post in which he mainly said that he has to act a certain way to be in the white space that he's in. In my opinion, many black folks do it every Sunday in order to assimilate into their mostly white churches. The thought that he denied who he was for the sake of being in proximity to whiteness and being paid a dollar says a lot. The below entire post is rooted in anti-blackness. The audience that this young man is trying to appease is one rooted in a white supremacist evangelical gospel. It calls for him to practice restraint, deny who he is, just so he can be in the inner crowd of white evangelical racists who will worship with you in one breath, and be silent at the hands of a black man dying a state-sanctioned death.  

According to The Julie Roys Report, in June 1982, Albert Alegrete, a Sunday School teacher at John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church (GCC), confessed to a pastor at GCC that he had committed sex crimes against children. But for two years, GCC did not report Alegrete’s crimes to the police. And during that time, Alegrete kidnapped a girl, who “managed to escape only by jumping out of his moving car,” according to a news report. When Alegrete finally turned himself in, he was sentenced to 44 years in prison for molesting five girls and kidnapping a sixth. While this story first came to light years ago, it touches on egregious issues revealed in recent investigations by The Roys Report—namely, the failure of GCC to report child abuse and molestation to police.

What are yall thoughts on this? Jesus delivered this young lady and her four children from Hebrew Israelism. "Two years ago my husband committed himself to Hebrew Israelism. However, I am a Christian. If you know anything about Hebrew Israelism you know how much they despise Christianity. I began to compromise my beliefs in attempt to keep the peace in my marriage. (Keeping feasts days, celebrating the new moon, putting fringes on all of our clothes, attending his "school" on the sabbath instead of my own desired place of worship because I was forbidden to. Etc) But it just didn’t feel right. I felt in my heart that what I was doing was wrong but couldn’t exactly explain why, so I continued to compromise in those gray areas. Last year I came across a series of Bible studies on YouTube by Nefer Nitty, Dwayne Lemon, and Ivor Myers that answered every single question I had desperately been seeking answers to! And with those answers came great conviction. I had decided I cou

I wonder what made Pastor Stovall Weems change his mind? A couple of months ago he said that he wasn’t going anywhere. In January he was suspended as the senior pastor of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Fla. As of today, he has announced that he was resigning from his position at the church effective immediately.

From their earliest days, Black churches have been political by necessity. D.C.’s churches are no exception. But over the last two decades, congregations of Black churches in the District have begun to disappear as they battle gentrification. Gentrification is not a new concept. Unauthorized movement, antiblackness, and displacement were always part of the plan when Africans were brought here to the United States. I think most people can agree that gentrification is more than just about White people moving into non- White communities - it is about money. White people often move into our neighborhoods because they see a better financial deal than they see in White neighborhoods.  

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Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church has drawn criticism for the above statement he made in a Facebook post. The post has since gone viral. In my opinion, sneaky is what criminals do. Sinners sneak around. Jesus wasn't sneaky when he hung from the cross. He told us in Isaiah that he would hang on the cross. God revealed His plan in the old Testament. To refer to God as (sneaky) is lumping Him in with man's sinful nature. The attributes of God are listed in the bible, and sneaky isn't one of them. What do you all think?

According to various reports since Sunday, Kirk Franklin's son, Kerrion Franklin, who is currently starring on the popular Zeus Network show Bad Boys LA, was arrested while driving in California after a Beverly Hills police officer stopped him for a broken car taillight. After searching the vehicle, police found an illegal pistol, which Kerrion said was not his. It was then revealed that the car he was driving was not his either but actually belongs to a woman who was rumored to be murdered. He is now being held in Texas and is being charged with 3 felonies.

The internet is reacting to the news that Magic Johnson loves his gay son unconditionally. The legendary basketball player shared that EJ changed him for the better when the actor opened up about his sexuality. Magic Johnson credits his wife Cookie Johnson for changing his perspective about his son EJ Johnson coming out as gay. Ahead of the April 22 release of the docuseries, “They Call Me Magic” on Apple TV+, the Johnsons spoke candidly to Variety about how they built a stronger relationship. 

Retired African Methodist Episcopal Church pastors have filed at least three federal class-action lawsuits alleging the church mishandled tens of millions of dollars in pension funds. An attorney with the AARP is helping to represent retirees after the denomination stopped making payments last month. Reportedly nearly $100 million in retirement savings has been lost. AME Church officials allegedly gave sole authority over the pension fund to the former head of retirement services. That led to investments in the purchase of Florida land, a loan to a solar panel installer, and investment in a “non-existent capital venture outlet.”

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into televangelist Perry Stone after allegations of sexual assault and harassment first surfaced against him two years ago, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported. The state has interviewed at least five people who claim to be victims or who are connected to Stone's ministry. There are at least nine victims who the state is interested in interviewing, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Once the investigation is completed, the results will be passed on to Steve Crump, the district attorney general for Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, and Polk counties.