Essentials For Sisters

Women are the African American church's largest demographic, and yet most of our churches offer little in the way of useful, uncompromised insight and advice into the issues and challenges facing our sisters. This is a collection of no-holds-barred perspectives on key areas of women in the black church.

The Resurrection

We, in our ignorance, tend to make Resurrection Sunday about egg hunts for children and increased head counts at our services, exhausting ourselves with the usual pageantry while missing the sobering reality of the terrible sacrifice which earned our redemption This collection is intended to reorient our thinking about this, the Christian faith's most holy day.

The Glass House

As we struggle, year to year, to keep the church doors open, many if not most of our churches are preoccupied with one thing: church growth. Here is a collection of reasons your church is not growing, and how to overcome them.

Black History Essentials

Does Black History Month still matter? Media sources and retail outlets are increasingly ignoring it because they experience no measurable dropoff in black patronage when they do. If we don't care about it, why should they? And is our indifference providing momentum to the trend toward eliminating voting rights and affirmative action legislation? In this presumptively post-racial America, where is the black voice?

PraiseNet Essentials 2013

PraiseNet Essentials: 2013 Retrospective
Trust, loyalty, honor, support, faithfulness, absolute confidentiality:  all core values of both the Christian faith and the Mob. How many of those ideals do we actually practice? Somewhere along the line we have lost our way. In that respect, we could learn a lot from the Mob--at least the way the Mob is supposed to work.

The Age of Obama

As President Barack Obama completes the first year of his second term, here is a collection of essays about this historic and turbulent presidency, and this president’s constant uphill battle against irrational conservatism and racial hatred, from Election Day 2008 to the present.