In his indicting book, The Color of Compromise (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019), Jemar Tisby unpacks how racism has maintained such a foothold among Christians throughout American history. As a historian, he traces the thread of racism from the origins of slavery...
Last week, a jury in Minneapolis found Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd in May of 2020. Shortly after Mr. Floyd was killed, a video of the murder began making the rounds on social media. The sustained worldwide protest which followed was unlike anything...
There is something that happens to us when we stick up for others. It’s easy to grant ourselves license to do things that are out of character if we’re defending someone or something we care about. If a stranger insults me in public, I won’t react. I’m not built that...
Although it has largely been forgotten in the century since his death, the great Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a prominent Christian voice against racism in America in his own day and age. Following a journey to North America in 1908, he...
Why I can’t quit the race conversation, even if I wanted to. This has been a hard few years for the church and the race conversation among Christians. One pastor in his 70s recently shared that he hasn’t seen our nation and the Church this divided since the 1960s....
Part of my job as editor of this ministry is research. Lately I have been reading hundreds of pages cataloguing racial injustice among God’s people. This history has been deeply discouraging to me. It’s not like it is new information. Slavery, reconstruction, Jim...
