PreachingToday.com's editor Matt Woodley recently interviewed Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, the Milton B. Engebretson Professory of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL. Rah is also the author of Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in T...

GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By MICHELLE ALEXANDER

AUGUST 17, 2015

For the past several years, I’ve greeted Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essays and blog posts for The Atlantic with nothing short of gratitude. As an African-American, he makes me proud. There is no o...

Not all, but too many.

Not everywhere, but in too many contexts.

Have we raised a generation of tentative men, and overwhelmed women? 

When men fear their fathers; or are not sure of their father’s reliability or his love, the younger man will shrink, atrophyand blend...

JELLO ON MY SHIRT

By Rev. Regina Pope

They awakened from their nap after resting from a full morning of playing and exploring. The three year old and one year old boys walked slowly to the kitchen, shaking off the effects of a midday break. As they approached the count...

“Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, … he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins” James 5:19-20

Last month we began the year renewing our commi...

Writing is Medicine

When I was a girl, I dreamed of becoming a physician. Maybe, because of my frequent ills and maladies, the smells and rhythms of the hospital became familiar, comforting, even intoxicating to me. I wanted to become a surgeon. My admiration became...