The purpose of telling our stories or sharing our history is not so that we will go back in time and place just for the sake of going there or so that we will get stuck there, but so that we can appreciate the journey that has brought us from where we were to where we are, and if necessary, to...

Years ago, I heard a minister tell a story about his young son. According to the speaker, he’d been preaching a sermon to his congregation when his son, then five or so years old, slipped out from his seat on the pew and disappeared from view.

So many times when African Americans want to talk about current injustices or injustices from the past, when we want to talk about the residual effects of slavery or the lingering bitter taste of racism that clings to our pallets, affecting both the memories of our past and the taste of...

On Sunday October 18, St. Luke the Evangelist, Houston celebrated its 100th anniversary. About forty people participated in outdoor worship, and a more significant number followed the event online. The history of St. Luke's is full of outstanding achievements and, at the same time, struggles...

In 2015, I completed a project for the Commission on Black Ministries in which I compiled the histories of the predominantly African American Episcopal churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

An Old Story: Truth, excited that she’d discovered a way to help people live life and live it to the fullest, hurried out into the streets to tell everyone the good news. But as she approached people trying to tell them the truth, they would scream and run away.

When St. James’ Episcopal Church celebrated its 60th Anniversary in 1998, The Rev. Antoine Campbell, its then Rector, said of it: “This wonderful church, for 60 years has received the love of God, shared the loved of God, and proclaimed the love of God for all humanity. There is no finer way to...

The Convention had ended and reviews were in: “What is undeniable is how welcoming and hospitable Texans were to the thousands of Episcopalians who made their way to Convention. In particular, the Diocese of Texas and its many volunteers went out of their way to make us feel at home – and we...