by Austin Suter
Perspicuity, Community, and Diversity. One of the most cherished truths of Protestant Reformation is the understanding of the priesthood of all believers. In the time of the Reformation, theologians like Martin Luther were pushing back on the idea that the priests of...
by Alicia Akins
“This is Christ’s body, broken for you.” A brother in Christ waited in the communion line. As I prepared to serve him the bread and readied those words in my mouth, I remembered how I’d heard him time and again attempt to delegitimize the concerns of black Americans,...
by Ryan King
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...
by Dr. Will Kynes
Learning from Antebellum Spirituals about the Defiant Faith of the Hebrew Bible Is wrestling with God like Jacob and arguing with him a legitimate, biblically endorsed way to respond to God in the midst of suffering? And, if so, what does that look like? The...
by Dr. George Yancey
When we talk about race relations we usually focus on the “race” part and forget the “relations” part. We know that there are tremendous differences based on race. We know that we have great difficulty with interracial conflict. Racial identity has come to be...
by Austin Suter
Human beings seem to have a natural suspicion of anything unfamiliar. In most cases this probably serves us well. We are told from a young age not to talk to strangers. We avoid situations which may put us out of our depth. But what about when we’re dealing with...
