Pastors and Public Servants: Lead Your Neighbor as Yourself

Posted on Oct 16, 2024 in Bible, Black Church, church, Church and State, Church Attendance, Church Buildings, Church Finances, church growth, Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Planting, Church Safety, coronavirus, covid-19, Ideas, Leadership, Old Testament, pandemic, Pastors, politics, preaching

As a pastor, I’ve found one of the main difficulties in leading faithfully and living as good neighbors is that we can’t always choose our neighbors or the context and circumstances in which we lead and live. And in a time of tense divisiveness, global conflicts, natural disasters, and other complex crises, this sense of Read more…

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My Friend, Bill Pannell

Posted on Oct 14, 2024 in African Americans, Black Church, Christianity Today, Edward Gilbreath, Evangelicalism, history, Theologians, theology

I first met the late William Pannell in 1993 in a hallway of Christianity Today. I was in my early 20s, just a year removed from graduating college. Dr. Pannell was visiting his old friend, former CT president Paul Robbins, and the pair was on a leisurely tour around the office.  I remember being enthralled Read more…

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