“Professor, yesterday my church was attacked by gangs, and it was destroyed and partially burned down. We are now meeting in homes. We are thankful that no one was injured, but we don’t know what to do now.”
“Did you feel the earthquake?” This was the topic of murmuring circulating the campus on April 10. An earthquake in New England is a rare, but not an unknown, occurrence.
The picture above reflects something of the joy of the resurrection. Our friendships and joy come from Christ’s victory on the cross.
“People from every tongue and tribe and people and nation, standing before the throne and before the lamb…” This has been one of my favorite passages for the past quarter of a century.
Jean Ford was one of the most kind, soft-spoken, and deeply Christian people my wife, Nancy, and I have ever known.
“But don’t you think our divisions—Christian divisions, not just among Evangelicals—is our greatest problem?”
Entropy can set in so easily. In fact, it is the standard trajectory of all of creation. Things go from a place of higher energy to lower. Buildings decay, batteries wear down, and even my body seems to be wearing down.
Gordon-Conwell is not moving to downtown Boston.
Like many people, I have recently been thinking about the past year and what I want to do differently or start doing. For the first time in decades, I want to commit to bringing about social change through the church.