Pure Church

Here are some pictures from the recent dialogue Thabiti participated in with a Muslim apologist in SE Asia. He will provide further highligh...

Tomorrow, a friend from church and I have the privilege of traveling to Southeast Asia for a week. We'll be there visiting some friends...

Beliefnet recently published their list of "who's who" in African-American spiritual circles (HT: Tim Challies). It's an i...

My good and faithful brother Eric asked me to put forward a bare-bones Christ-centered solution for disentangling "blackness" and ...

Not without reforming the pastor. It seems that so much of the church's health rides on the health of the pastors/elders and the men of ...

This weekend, I had the disquieting experience of attending a local church in my home town. It was "disquieting" for a number of ...

Can the predominantly African-American church be reformed? If so, almost certainly it will require a revival of sound, biblical preaching. T...

Did you know that Desiring God has launched a new blog ? Several of the DG staff contribute to the blog and they've been posting audio a...

Last night the DG pastors' conference kicked off! It was a great start to the conference. 1,200 men singing, as Luther put it, "l...

About 3pm today, I'm abandoning the 75+ degree climes of sunny Grand Cayman and heading off to the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, MN! I ...

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...