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...
American Christians are embroiled in a controversy right now. Some leaders are likening this to the threat of liberalism in the days of J. Gresham Machen. Others argue that this is a time to get “woke” and fight the supremacy and powers behind the social injustice in...
When I wrote this, there was a crisis in the Suez Canal. A 1300ft container ship, the Ever Given, ran aground in the Canal, completely blocking the canal and creating a traffic jam like no other. Of course, a gigantic ship stuck in the middle of the Suez Canal has...
Gospel+Safety+Time and Reconciliation Gospel+Safety+Time. This combination of words comes from a short book written by Ray Ortlund called The Gospel: How The Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ. In this book, Ortlund explains the difference between gospel doctrine...
I didn’t know what to expect when I picked up Isabel Wilkerson’s book: The Warmth of Other Suns this past winter, but it proved a book I couldn’t put down. The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of over 6 million African Americans who moved North between 1915 and...
