Category Archives: church life

In defense of color-blindness (sort of)

Posted on August 20, 2017 by

There is an impetus today to reject color-blindness and the reasons are quite valid.  If someone says, “I don’t see color” or worse, “God doesn’t see color” rebuke is the natural impulse since God himself created a beautiful array of … Continue reading →

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The church in the age of MLK: the culture and us

Posted on January 16, 2017 by

Thanks to the memory section on Facebook, an article written by Dr. Anthony Bradley popped up from two years that I shared titled The KKK, Selma, and Southern Christianity. It was a raw reflection from seeing the movie Selma but … Continue reading →

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Surprised by the deficiency of the Spirit

Posted on October 23, 2016 by

As I wrote about in Hearing God Speak regarding my master’s thesis, one of the books I interacted with was Surprised by the Voice of God  by Jack Deere. If you are not familiar with the book, Deere writes about the … Continue reading →

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Another look at racial tension and stuff that divides Christ’s church

Posted on September 3, 2016 by

There’s been a lot of talk about race in the church of late, the need to talk about it, the need for reconciliation, the need to get gatherings to talk about it so that we can be reconciled, the need … Continue reading →

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On being called into ministry

Posted on June 9, 2016 by

This is a slightly edited version of a post I did for Parchment and Pen in 2011. These are some thoughts I spent some years in working out on the question of what it means to be be called into … Continue reading →

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