Shades of Brown book club was founded by two women new to the Denver area. The book club is open to African American sistahs who not only enjoy and appreciate Black literature, but also understand its value and importance to our Community. We will meet once a month, excluding December, to dine and discuss our monthly selection. Our primary focus will be African-American authors but also authors throughout the African Diaspora. We also see the group as one that gives back to the community - parti …

The New Testament can be compared to the "black box" of a crashed airplane, which records the communications of the flight crew and other warning indicators that shed light on the circumstances of the crash. What happened to the flight of the first century church?  Why did it fail to reach it's prophetic destiny?  why does the past 1900 years of Christian history depict a religion so radically different from the description of the first church in the book of Acts? Could it be that it is describi …