Reverend Irene Monroe
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley reveals she has no hair in a culture obsessed with black women’s hair
The Congresswoman’s braids are an inspiration to many, but she now she wants to be “free from the secret and the shame.”
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LGBTQ Methodists were stuck loving a church that didn’t love them back. Sound familiar?
As a nation, we’re at crossroads on many issues. It’s a shame when a church cannot bring us together.
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Whitney Houston comes out after her death. Again.
If Whitney Houston could have been accepted as a bisexual woman, she might still be alive today.
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Should Black Christians continue to be forgiving?
I now question if our religion’s teachings of forgiveness are serving us well, particularly with the resurgence of white nationalism.
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My family is due reparations. The government is still trying to take their land.
Sometime before 1877, Great Grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate as her brood try to scrape together enough money to keep it.
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The story of Stonewall has been bleached. I know because I was there.
It takes white privilege to fight the police, expect to walk away alive, and create a hagiographical narrative of white heroism.
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Trans deaths are real deaths. It’s time America realized that simple truth.
God works through other people. Maybe you can be those other people.
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Historically black all-male college will admit trans students
Morehouse College – the jewel of black academia and male leadership – will admit transgender male students in 2020.
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If Trump was really religious, he’d want to protect churches from deranged killers
Easter and Ramadan are coming but attacks on places of worship are becoming too frequent in this global climate of intolerance. As a worshiper, I need our president to make us safe.
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The United Methodist Church faces schism. How does it move forward?
All people under God have the same sacred worth — even if the United Methodist Church doesn’t practice it.
