Not My Problem: Apathetic Suburbia and the Call of Jesus
if I’m being honest, I prefer to retreat to the suburbia of my own heart, to not face the pain in the world, the pain in the lives of others, or the pain of my own story.
We were once dead in our sins and strangers to your grace, but you have called us by name and made us brothers and sisters
if I’m being honest, I prefer to retreat to the suburbia of my own heart, to not face the pain in the world, the pain in the lives of others, or the pain of my own story.
Dr. King understood that none of us can claim to accurately see and address the evil around us until we first take action to find and deal with the evil within ourselves.
This week’s workshop on racial justice issues comes to us from Watson Jones III.
The first time I read the Hebrew Scriptures all the way through and encountered the prophets, I was unable to ignore a vision of sin as a corporate undertaking and repentance as highly communal and action-oriented.
Martin Luther King’s birthday is the perfect opportunity to bring your teenagers along to see the newly released film Just Mercy. The movie, based on attorney Bryan Stevenson’s memoir of the same name, is an account of Stevenson’s…
Watching Just Mercy is not an easy, lighthearted afternoon’s entertainment, but it is well worth the energy to bring your teenagers along to see it. As an aside: you will want to be sure to see the movie…