I benefited from a host of great writers, podcasters, directors, playwrights, and theologians this year. It’s a delight to share my favorites from 2022 with you! Note: these are the best things I read, watched, or listened to this year. …

The Best of the Best—My Top Books, Podcasts, and More from 2022 Keep reading »

This week, for the first time I remember, I heard the name Yusef Hawkins. Do you know who he is? Yusef (also spelled Yusuf) was a high school student in Brooklyn in 1989. One summer night he accompanied two of …

A Painful Sermon that Frustrates Me, and Makes Me Hopeful Keep reading »

Listen to Dennae Pierre’s reflections on the nature of sin and the kingdom of God. Her words bring fresh insight to the saving work of Jesus.

It’s time to take a step back from congregational distress and look at it from a wide-angle lens. Because your people are going through multiple disasters—health crisis, economic collapse, racial injustice, social upheaval—at the same time. What can we learn from disaster mental health experts to navigate a way forward?