Pure Church

Justin Taylor is continuing our discussion with some worthwhile thoughts regarding affirmation action over at his blog. Good stuff to chew ...

The problem with "the African American church" (writ large) today is that by almost any historical definition she is not a true ch...

That's a question I've been rolling over in my head recently. It's a big question. It's a troubling question for me on man...

A happy fundamentalist friend, a beloved brother in the Lord, just sent me a copy of Edward Gilbreath's Reconciliation Blues: A Black Ev...

Dan at Cerulean Sanctum has a thoughtful post on seeing suffering as a possible opportunity for someone else's blessing. For those thi...

Probably not. I hadn't either until I read a three-part interview ( one , two , three ) with her over at Adrian Warnock's blog. Wend...

HT: Justin Taylor . This piece over at ESPN is the best sports article I've read in a while. It features to Brothers who are also bro...

I'm way too slow at updating my links to other blogs that I appreciate. But since I have today off and some leisure time, I'm corre...

Will a man rob God? Apparently so. Churches would be wise to consider this article and protect itself and its members and the name of Chr...

This is the final post in this series. It's been good thinking about some of these things and interacting with some of you. I do pray no...

I missed the music wars of the '80s or whenever they were. I wasn't a Christian and the idea that Christians would have been fighti...

Who Is More Difficult to Label? Oprah Winfrey ... or, Martin Luther King, Jr ... or, Howard Thurman . Three recent articles examine their th...

I pray that all you reading from stateside had a good King holiday. Life in Cayman kept rolling as usual. Once again, I'm reminded of ...

We've come to the point in this series of posts where we need to try and get a bit more concrete or practical. I want to try and quickly...

I had the privilege of sharing today on the Paul Edwards Show , a radio broadcast in the Detroit, MI area sponsored by the The Center for th...

In the last post, we ended on this point: "self-love is almost always idolatrous." We went a little further to say: The first orde...

So far, in post one we've laid out experiential, theological and pastoral reason for thinking about the question “What relationship is ...

Smackdown in the Pulpit : As a little boy, I watched Hulk Hogan flex, body slam, and drop that big leg on tons of opponents. He even inspire...

The Atlanta Journal Constitution offers this piece on corporate partnerships between some African American megachurches and Daimler-Chrysle...

In the last post , we attempted a working definition of culture. "The human production of ways of living and belief, generally intended...