Category: Racial Justice

Ethnicity and the Church: A More Excellent Way

February 17, 2026

Introducing a short video and podcast conversation that revisits my urgent 2019 theological essay arguing that ethnic diversity should be viewed as a spiritual gift essential for the health and witness of the global Christian community. I challenge believers to move beyond nationalism and tribalism toward a “most excellent way” (1 Cor. 12:31) defined by suffering in solidarity with marginalized groups. … More Ethnicity and the Church: A More Excellent Way

I Stand with the NAE

February 6, 2026

I intentionally seek out and share sources that cannot be simply be dismissed as woke, mainstream media propaganda, and here is another example. I stand in support of the National Association of Evangelicals’ statement, “Standing With Our Immigrant Neighbors in a Time of Crisis” and invite you to do the same. … More I Stand with the NAE

Our Need for MLK

January 19, 2026

On this MLK Day, we are reminded how badly we leaders of moral character and wisdom. This generation of well-meaning protesters filling the streets of my city lack the training in non-violent resistance that MLK taught and embodied. If we don’t hear words like following these days coming from our political leaders, maybe we should be turning our ears again to preachers like MLK. … More Our Need for MLK

Freedom Day

June 19, 2025

Jemar Tisby helps us understand the origins and meaning of the federal holiday of Juneteenth, established in 2021. On June 19th, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger, proclaimed freedom for slaves in Texas in a statement in Galveston. … More Freedom Day

MLK’s Dream

January 15, 2024

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. … More MLK’s Dream

My Problem with the Bible (Brian Zahnd)

October 9, 2020

One of the most remarkable things about the Bible is that in it we find the narrative told from the perspective of the poor, the oppressed, the enslaved, the conquered, the occupied, the defeated. This is what makes it prophetic. We know that history is written by the winners. This is true — except in the case of the Bible it’s the opposite! … More My Problem with the Bible (Brian Zahnd)

Confessions of a Responsible, Hardworking White Guy Who Earned His Own Way (cough)

June 17, 2020

When I have been confronted with claims of racial injustice, white privilege, and racism as a ‘social issue’, I was taught to dismiss such thinking as a concoction of liberals and certain black leaders who are still living in the past. … More Confessions of a Responsible, Hardworking White Guy Who Earned His Own Way (cough)