As 2011 came to its close, many of us watched the annual rituals at Times Square on our flat-screened televisions. Around the country, songs were sung and parties enjoyed, but I wonder how many of us or our children remembered that December 31st is Watch Night. It was on this...

"Few people join or stay members of a faith they don't believe in." Those words offered by a dear friend would appear self-evident, but they speak volumes about what is key to individuals.

In the Black community we seem more willing than others to "try on" a different church --...

I was raised by "the help." I don't mean that "the help" served me in my parents' mansion. No, my parents were "the help" in white households -- my mother a domestic servant and...

I was raised by "the help." I don't mean that "the help" served me in my parents' mansion. No, my parents were "the help" in white households -- my mother a domestic servant...

One of the outgrowths of this information age is that we sometimes think we know all about a topic after just a...

We live in a world of economic disparities, and in a time when these disparities are widening. The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, and many in the U.S.A. support economic plans which would further reward those currently referred to as "the 1 percent."

Some might...

As much as we might like to think otherwise, politics and religion frequently overlap, as they do again this political season. The recent uproar caused by Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas wherein he called Mitt Romney's Mormon faith a "cult" is just...