by Kay Ahmed | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturyReligion, ChurchChange, From Our Archives
This past January, the church I pastor, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, had its own “come to Jesus” moment during our Annual Church Meeting. I had done my due diligence all year — studying the latest data regarding church growth trends and...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | From the Editor, News
It’s easy to make February about a certain kind of love—the sweet, sentimental, Valentines’ Day kind, all wrapped in pretty paper and offered up with chocolates and and a saccharine greeting cards with lacy hearts and ribbons. Maybe there’s a place...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, Featured Article
Reina had walked for more than 20 days, in the rain and cold and mud. Grief-stricken after the loss of her son, she walked with one destination in mind: a country she hoped would be her safe-harbor, a new beginning, free from the fear and the violence she had known....
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | 21stCenturyReligion, Commentary
During Advent 2018, my 10-year-old—“Kiddo”—asked a series of specific questions that kicked off a 3-hour re-examination of a fundamental question at stake in the “religion as education” landscape: where does the religion classroom begin? A quick scan of a park,...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 30, 2019 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Art and Creativity, Creative Insights
It’s no secret that the bulk of religious iconography from across spiritual traditions highlights the faces of men, oftentimes whitewashed to erase the varied hues of skin that our saints embodied. Overlooked, strategically erased, and missing are the bold faces of...
