When you die, you either rise out of one and into another existence or you are enclosed within an unknown place. You do not rise up nor descend. Hollywood has it wrong, science has yet to discover or prove, and the Bible does not totally explain. However, the spirit does reveal.....[more]

African Spirituality in the Black Community
By Abena

Perhaps it was a progression from churches to Muslim temples to metaphysics, or a restlessness or dissatisfaction with churches, or maybe through an introduction to African cultural practices. From Queens, New York, to Washington, DC, from Maryland to Arizona, people of Africa descent follow African ancestral practices.....[more]

Living By A Lie, Die By A Lie
By Isis Akkebala

What were the males made of in Jonestown that they did not take Jim Jones Lights out if they could not get out? Was it a Lockdown mind-set? Living by a Lie, Die By A Lie. The worse place Afrikans can be in is these churches.....[more]

What The Black Church Must Do

The Black community is facing serious crises in many areas and obviously political crusades are no remedy. Black America should never depend on the United States Government systems to correct, equalize, or better our situations, but should look to our own gatekeepers; and ourselves: the Black church being the primary foundation for direction....[more]

What is A Blessing?

The scripture says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17). Anything God gives comes from the heavens, not from the earth. Many people have mistaken the things from above with the things of this earth, such as houses, cars, jobs, or any material thing, which are substances of the material world.......[more]

The Wrong Concept of God:
Keeps a People Powerless and Aids the Slave Master
By Ras Jahaziel

Because of what we were taught for a very long time, we sort of expected that God was going to come and change things, but every God that came just visited for a short while and then left us in the same situation. As is the custom with slave people, our weakness of spirit has often caused us to worship messiahs rather than be inspired by messiahs. When the messiah has ascended, we find ourselves gazing into the sky or passionately intensifying our icon-worship in the hope of salvation......[more]

Who Or What Is God?
By Natasha Munson
Submitted By Yolanda Carden - Publicist

God is a spiritual being that exists within you, within others, and within the world. God is the force that created you and everything in this world. God created the world as a place for man and nature to coincide.......[more]

Blacks and the Misunderstanding of Christianity

Two ways exist in which Black America has missed the point and purpose of Christianity. The first deals with many Blacks believing that Christianity is the white man's religion, and the second deals with how current Black Christians practice Christianity.......[more]

The Energy to Love

Step back for a moment and stare at the society in which we live. Now, apply your idea of love to what you see, is it there? Depending on what a person's idea of love would be may determine this vision, correct? Which is the point; there is no one idea of love. Though it may be defined, it is not a common practice of America's cultural literacy.......[more]

Dear Satan
By C. R. Hamilton

Dear Satan,

I know who you are. I know how you think and I know what your plan is and how you will carry it out. The fact that you are a liar is no secret, but the methods in which you tell your lies are deceitful. You do not have to tell a lie in its direct form (although you do) you can lie by simply not telling the whole truth......[more]

Religion is Deeper Than Culture: On Being An African-American Buddhist
by M. LaVora Perry

Almost 13 years ago I emerged from a life of hellish suffering. I had been in and out of battles with eating disorders, suicidal depression and substance abuse, and I had dropped out of college. I found unshakable happiness within myself by embracing Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI-USA).[more]

A Wake-Up Call
By The Soul Doctor

Most of you call yourselves Americans, of either the African or black persuasion. Some of you are proud of your knowledge of our culture and history. Some of you know your slave roots and embrace them.....[more]

How Should African American Christians respond to this Nations Pending War?
By R. Lynn Butler

Pray! As African Americans we may want to believe that this is not our battle, but on 9/11 many African Americans were among those who lost their lives, and many will die defending our nation abroad and in our own land, should we face another attack. Yes, America was attacked on 9/11, which ironically (911) is our nations emergency call for help and after 9/11 we did rally as one. We must continue in that spirit and continue praying always for one another and our country putting God first in all that we ask.....[more]

Once Saved, Never Lost

Common sense says that once a person is born they cannot be unborn. In the gospel of Christ, once a person is born again, they cannot be un-born again. The promise of Jesus Christ is eternal life to those who are born again and they can never perish.....[more]

How to Read the Bible

The Bible is like a puzzle and pieced together carefully, a person can perceive the whole picture, or the total concept of any one issue, topic, or mystery. Yet they must find the right piece to fit in the right place without missing a single piece or the idea of the issue, and their understanding, is distorted. A math problem will not total correctly if it is not computed correctly, and will give the wrong answer because the steps were done in the incorrect order.....[more]