WATCH: How One St. Louis Church Is Countering Unrest In Ferguson With a...
Residents in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, and the surrounding region have been on edge since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Jr. on Aug. 9. The suburban St. Louis community has been frayed...
View ArticleWhat Is Essential to Being the Black Church?
I read with interest Nicole Symmond’s recent On Faith op-ed, “10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew about the Black Church.” Symmonds is no stranger to African-American churches and writes frequently from...
View ArticleChristena Cleveland says ‘Ferguson is the New Montgomery'; ‘Dominant...
Christena Cleveland Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist, professor at Bethel University, and author of Disunity in Christ, responds to the Ferguson grand jury decision in a series of...
View ArticlePastor Derwin L. Grey: Multiethnic Churches Can Model the Reconciliation...
Derwin L. Gray by Derwin L. Grey In August, Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white policeman, in Ferguson, Missouri. Tonight, we learned that the...
View ArticleChristians Discuss Implications of Ferguson Outcome and How to Move Forward...
The internet erupted with opinions, condemnations, and critique as the Ferguson grand jury decision to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the slaying of Michael Brown was announced on yesterday...
View ArticleYoung Black Male Member of White Church says the White Church Should Not Be...
by Kevin Clay I am a Christian and a black man. My wife and I wife attend a majority-white church in central New Jersey. We are not an anomaly. The few majority-white churches I’ve visited over the...
View Article#PrayForFerguson Trends on Twitter as Thousands Respond to Ruling in Michael...
Protesters gather during a demonstration outside the White House after the announcement of the grand jury’s decision in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,...
View ArticleLISTEN: C.S. Lewis: “A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better...
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View ArticleEd Stetzer Says Christians Now Have a Decision to Make About Ferguson and Race
by Ed Stetzer The grand jury has made a decision in Ferguson, now we have to make ours. How will we respond? In light of the grand jury decision handed down tonight in the wake of Michael Brown’s...
View ArticleGlenn Stanton says Christians Ought to Love Their Homosexual Neighbours
Image: Sara Tyson Not long ago, a former student of mine wrote an article for The Atlantic describing his experience coming out as gay at Liberty University, the evangelical school where I teach. He...
View ArticleDr. Tony Evans Gives Reflections on Ferguson, Says ‘God Calls Us to Unity’
Tony Evans As dusk fell on Ferguson, the grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown case blanketed our nation in the chaotic darkness of conflicting emotions and responses. Anger, resentment and...
View ArticleLISTEN: Iran nuclear talks extended until June 2015 (Second Coming Watch...
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View Article15 Blessings to Count as Thanksgiving Approaches
J. Lee Grady At the beginning of this month, two Pakistani Christians—a husband and his pregnant wife—were beaten for three days, stoned by an angry mob and dragged behind a vehicle. Finally they were...
View ArticleThe Unique Role of Southern Baptists In America’s Race Relations
In 1995 the SBC adopted a resolution apologizing for its racist past, asking African Americans for forgiveness. SBC second vice president Gary Frost (left), Resolutions Committee chairman Charles...
View ArticleSouthern Baptists In Ferguson Gather In Prayer Amid Rioting
Darron Edwards Amid tensions surrounding a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenage robbery suspect in Ferguson, Mo., Southern Baptists are...
View ArticlePastor James MacDonald Says Christians Don’t Need to Take Sides In Ferguson...
Pastor James MacDonald Pastors nationwide continued to dialogue and voice strong opinions about the issues surrounding the St. Louis grand jury decision, announced Monday evening, not to indict...
View ArticleAlveda King on Ferguson: America, We Are Better Than This
Alveda King Last summer, God revealed a message to me just before the tragic death of Michael Brown. “Alveda, tell the people of the world this: You don’t have to live this way. You are better than...
View ArticleWATCH: Bishop Harry Jackson on Ferguson Decision and How to Pray for Unity...
Harry R. Jackson Jr. Protests across the nation and world followed Monday night’s announcement in Ferguson, Missouri, that a white police officer would not be indicted in the shooting death of an...
View ArticleVoddie Baucham on Ferguson, Racism, and the Plight of Black Men
Voddie Baucham In early August my wife and I, along with seven of our nine children, left for a month-long ministry tour in Africa (Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa). It was a couple of days before we...
View ArticleThabiti Anyabwile Says “Americans Failed America” With Ferguson Grand Jury...
Thabiti Anyabwile America has not failed us. We have failed America. “America” represents a set of ideals, a set of values organized into a polity and a promise. The thing about ideals and values is...
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