I recently took some time away to attend a pastors’ retreat in Albuquerque. One of the most edifying things I did was read a little book called Enjoy Your Prayer Life by Michael Reeves (La Grange, KY: 10Publishing, 2014). For most of us, prayer is an absolute slog....
The best ideas always seem obvious in hindsight. That’s the case with Daniel Darling’s forthcoming book, Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loved (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2023). This is a book of old ideas seemingly forgotten in our time....
In Church as it is in Heaven? It was only several years ago that I had no answer for a question I was often asked: “What should I read on race and ethnic unity in the church?” It wasn’t that there were not good books on race and racism. There were plenty. But many...
Alicia Akins has been a friend of United? We Pray for years now. I cannot remember how we first met, but she has been writing for us on and off since 2020. I remember right away appreciating her keen insight, both about herself and those around her. She brings those...
Many of us involved in conversations about race and God’s people are in need of encouragement. It is all too easy to get hung up on what is wrong without building out a positive vision for diversity among God’s people. Jarvis Williams’s Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: A...
I am pastor of a church in Wood Green, an ethnically and socio-economically diverse urban town center in London, England. This environment makes quite a change from the rural Arkansas of my formative years, but I was blessed to have parents who taught me that “Jesus...
