African Methodist Episcopal Church

I am a member of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, where the culture and worship is built around the motto, “God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Human kind Our Family.” This motto fits Christians around the world. However, for the AME church this motto encompasses a great summary of the principles of what our church stands for. Simply put, we worship God on all levels; we love all of God’s people and believe that without God’s love, the world would be

In the African American community, a major component of our history is the institution of religion. It has been with us since our time in Africa, and it still affects us today. The sad realization is many African Americans today never learned the history to understand how much religion affected us, so people of the current generation did not appreciate its importance. Now, there is a social conflict between generations of Blacks in regards to how they see religion. In this paper, I plan to show

this period, Ridout served as a Methodist pastor across the Delaware Conference, which had charges in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware Ridout also held key positions and played major roles in the communities he serviced. He served as president of Bridgeton, N.J. branch of the NAACP during the 1940s. He was involved in the merger of the White and Negro church conferences, which he described as "a great step forward for Methodism, and for the Christian church as a whole in America." He served

Before, the Africans were forced to migrate to the America, they had their own individual religions. They practiced their tribal religions which varied because they were from different parts of Africa. During the African Diaspora, African’s were deported to America in the Atlantic Slave Trade. These Africans were from the same continent but they had their own identities, languages, and beliefs. The Europeans captured and enslaved these Africans from different countries in Africa so they weren’t able

Many people have fought for their rights. People have lived to become something in life. One person who achieved something was, Sojourner Truth. She was an African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born into slavery in the year of 1797 in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. Many people knew her as Isabella Baumfree, but when she escaped slavery in 1826 with her infant daughter Sophia, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She devoted her life to end slavery and at the

Invention of Wings Essay Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Invention of Wings, tells the story of two young women from Charleston, South Carolina—a woman from a prosperous white Grimke family and an African American house slave. The novel takes place in the early volatile 1800s, where slavery was prominent and women’s rights were not. Kidd’s use of two different characters with two contrasting lives, engages the reader’s emotions to deeply connect with the characters’ choices of right or wrong. Hetty’s

God. Fundamentalists place most of their emphasis on God as the author of the bible. They do not pay much attention to the human side of the Bible’s authorship. Fundamentalists believe in total word-for-word inspiration of the Bible. The Catholic Church does not teach that God merely dictated

Two of these denominations were the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the African Methodist Episcopal. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - commonly known as Mormons was founded by Joseph Smith; he was inspired to create a new church faction by the revivals he experienced in the western area of New York called the "Burned Over District-" implying it had been "scorched"

Bridget “biddy” mason Bridget biddy mason was born a slave in 1818. Bridget was born in mississippi. Although she was born in mississippi she was still a slave in Georgia and she was also held in south carolina. She was a slave women that worked as a midwife/nurse. She was born on a plantation owned by a man named Robert Marion Smith and a lady named Rebbecca (crosby) Smith. Bridget was responsible of feeding the bovine animals. Bridget had to cook and also take care of her kids

construct embedded in the African American experience through the ages. Whether it be Christianity, Muslim, Judaism and many other religions that found itself in the Americas the religions derived from the African diaspora was very mixed, they had traditional belief about magic which are derived from some Yoruba and Muslim belief system, Christianity was something new to them. As their, ancestors were brought to the Americans they brought their own traditional belief system. African American religious institutions