Most Read
This week on EEWMinistry in Action
Empowering Everyday Women Ministries delivers dignity kits, Bibles, clean water, food, and emergency aid. Every gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law.
Loading ministry stories…
News
Twelve years after his death, a recovered 2008 EEW interview reveals the musician, painter and devoted son behind the celebrated preacher.
More than 1,000 Navajo Nation residents have been affected by repeated flooding. A reservation congregation and the Episcopal Church in Navajoland are working to reach families cut off by washed-out roads.
An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to give Karen Attiah her job back. After months of weighing the offer, the former columnist accepted a settlement instead, saying she did not feel safe returning.
The “I’ve Had It” hosts laughed on air at a post about digging up Charlie Kirk’s body. As companies pulled their ads, they apologized and then turned on Turning Point USA.
Gospel
You've heard that forgiveness is for you and that holding a grudge is like drinking poison. Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant gives the reason He commands forgiveness: the mercy God has already shown you.
“God won't put more on you than you can bear.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “God helps those who help themselves.” Christians have repeated these familiar expressions for generations. But are they actually in the Bible?
Nearly two-thirds of churchgoers scored below 60% on a Bible literacy assessment. A closer look at 2 Timothy 2:15 reveals what it means to study Scripture diligently and grow in understanding of God's Word.
For the bone-tired woman in an unfinished season, John 4 shows a weary Savior who finished His saving work and invites her into a harvest she was never meant to carry alone.
Jesus’ own claims, the Godhead, the empty tomb and more than 500 witnesses equip Christians to explain why Jesus Christ stands alone.
Inspiration
Trouble has a way of testing what we believe about God. On Mount Carmel, Elijah showed a wavering nation who the true God is. His power has not diminished, and His worthiness has not changed.
Prayed until you’re worn out and the answer still hasn’t come? Psalm 69 shows a desperate prayer is an act of faith, and God hears the needy.
Dreading the holidays after loss or illness? Dianna Hobbs shares how Scripture makes room for grief and gratitude when you are hanging by a thread.
You’ve prayed. You’ve hoped. You’ve waited. And the circumstances you’ve begged God to change remain. In Gethsemane, Jesus shows that God’s strength can sustain you even when the cup will not pass.
Moving a late brother’s Instagram post stirred up unexpected grief. Then a weary reader asked for prayer. Both lead to Jesus’ tender invitation to the heavy laden and the kind yoke He offers.
Wellness
The FDA is requiring Ozempic, Wegovy and every other GLP-1 drug to warn of NAION, a rare eye condition that can cause sudden, permanent vision loss in one eye.
University of Michigan researchers found that dementia caregivers reported less stress and brighter moods on days they made room for simple positive activities like gratitude journaling.
Christian psychologists and pastors are confronting a teaching that has kept many believing women silent: the idea that fear, anxiety and depression measure their faith.
Two Connecticut women spent more than a decade searching for answers before an endometriosis diagnosis. New national guidelines now name the racial myths that kept Black women waiting.
A Kaiser Permanente study of 84,206 insured patients finds Black women with fibroids were less likely to receive treatment and reached it about two months later.
Entertainment
Small towns, snowfall and guaranteed happy endings are back with a record 34 premieres. Researchers have even named the kinds of fans who can’t get enough.
Druski’s money-hungry pastor is headed to Netflix in “Collect & Praise.” Gospel voices, including Kirk Franklin and Lecrae, say the comedian found his material in real pulpits.
Faith carried Sherri Shepherd through fear onto “The View.” Now she is Broadway’s first female Genie in “Aladdin,” through Jan. 3, 2027.
Jimmy Jenkins’ modern-day Nativity premieres Oct. 24 at First Baptist Church of Glenarden before opening in select theaters Nov. 13.
Gizelle Bryant, who once served as first lady of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple, stars in and executive produces BET’s new megachurch drama “Church Wives,” premiering Nov. 4.
Ministry
A mother and three children were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent in Gaza. Israel says 91,000 tents have entered. UN agencies say more than 150,000 are still waiting outside.
After drought wiped out her farm and livestock, a Somali mother walked three days to get care for her severely malnourished daughter. Nearly 2 million children across Somalia are expected to face acute malnutrition.
A mother in Uganda lost her baby girl to illness after treatment for pneumonia and acute malnutrition. Her loss comes as drought and rising food prices leave hundreds of thousands of young children in need of lifesaving nutrition care.
Crowds in Times Square hugged, cried and prayed as Scripture filled the screens overhead on the first night of Global Bible Month, a worldwide invitation to read the Bible every day in November.
At least five children were killed when a drone struck a market in Nyala, the latest in a wave of attacks reaching Sudanese children in camps, shelters and their own neighborhoods as the war continues into its fourth year.
The EEW Weekly
Get the Week’s Best in Your Inbox
Faith, culture, health, and the news that matters to Black Christian women, gathered each week and sent straight to you. Choose ministry updates too, if you’d like.
The Georgia governor-elect posed with Perry at his Atlanta premiere as the filmmaker, who faces two civil lawsuits he denies, prepares to help shape her administration.