No Earthly Good Available on Amazon What happens when faith no longer fits the shape you were given? When love requires boundaries? When legacy feels more dangerous than divine? No Earthly Good is a fearless, reflective exploration of belief, sacrifice, love, judgment, family, legacy, and acceptance, told through lived experience rather than doctrine. With honesty and spiritual maturity, Candace L. Smith interrogates the ideas we are taught to revere and asks what they cost us when left unexamined. This book is not a rejection of God, love, or community, it is a reckoning with how they are practiced. Through personal reflection and cultural observation, Smith challenges performative faith, unbalanced sacrifice, conditional love, and the pressure to build legacies at the expense of integrity. Written for readers navigating disillusionment, spiritual fatigue, relational grief, and personal growth, No Earthly Good offers clarity without certainty and peace without perfection. It inv...
Pastor Jamal Bryant Lied on the Ushers of the Church Pastor Jamal Bryant’s New Year’s Eve sermon, delivered in response to criticism of his wife’s gala attire, quickly went viral, not only for what it defended, but for what it introduced into the conversation. Among his remarks, Bryant claimed that ushers historically walked with one hand behind their back to cover their backsides from deacons and men in the church who allegedly lacked self-control. That statement is demonstrably false. There is no historical, theological, or documented usher training tradition that supports the idea that this posture existed to shield women from predatory men. Ushers, both male and female, have long been trained to walk with controlled posture as a sign of reverence, discipline, and readiness to serve. This practice predates modern conversations around modesty policing and applies regardless of gender or body type. To suggest otherwise reframes a tradition of order into a narrative of unchecked male l...