Before marrying Lamar Sally on August 31 in Chicago, Sherri Shepherd had a very important stipulation. No sex before “I Do”!

So many black women are single, she says, because they are stuck in the   groove of a one-track song: sitting alone, waiting for that one “good” black man to come along and sweep them off their feet. Waiting. Talking to girlfriends. Waiting. Going out alone. Waiting. Going to work. Waiting. Waiting for a “good” black [...]

Legs covered in skin-toned stockings, her skirt crisp to the knee, Patty Davis slips on the black heels she has shined for the day. “Got to look good in the Lord’s house,” she says as she spritzes her neck with White Diamonds perfume and exits her black Lincoln Town Car. Davis, 46, of Union City, [...]

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving his wife. I was shocked and disappointed. How could this man, committed to both his spouse and his Lord, fall in love with another woman? An essay by the late Sheldon Vanauken helps answer the [...]

The blog begins with a startling confession: Hi, my name is John, and I was a sex addict. I’m also a believer in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and am married to an amazing and beautiful woman of God. Church leaders have long struggled talking about sex, much less pornography. But Relevant magazine [...]