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Meet the Black Church: Tom Skinner

Meet the Black Church: Tom Skinner

“You can kill the revolutionary but you can’t kill the revolution!” These were some of the most powerful, eerily foreshadowing, and sobering words of the most recent blockbuster movie, Judas and the Black Messiah. The movie chronicled the plot to assassinate the...
Black History Keeps Our Eyes Open

Black History Keeps Our Eyes Open

What if you could use both of your eyes open for only twenty-eight consecutive days, and then you had to use one eye for the rest of the year? How productive do you think you would be during those twenty-eight days? How productive do you think you would be for the...
R.I.P, The Benefit of the Doubt

R.I.P, The Benefit of the Doubt

Recently a friend and I were texting. Everything was fine, until he sent a message I couldn’t exactly understand. An unclear text is a common problem. All of us have both received and sent confusing texts. And the solution is simple: Ask the sender to clarify what he...
Black History Month is an Opportunity

Black History Month is an Opportunity

It’s early February and I’m already seeing Black History Month advertised on search engines, website banners, and TV commercials. The popular content is predictable. I remember it from last year and every year before that. We see images of Rosa Parks and Dr. King. We...
Opposing Racism in Theory and Practice

Opposing Racism in Theory and Practice

In a topic as controversial and complicated as race, Christians must agree on a central claim—racism is bad in theory and practice. That point is uncontroversial. But there is a way to both affirm and deny that statement at the same time. It is possible, even common,...
Reconciliation Is Not Forced But Felt

Reconciliation Is Not Forced But Felt

If you’ve ever wondered what the language of biblical reconciliation sounds like, then look no further than Paul’s letter to Philemon. Far from being the platitudinal words of “can’t we all just get along?” spoken in the midst of deep relational brokenness and...