What I Discovered at Calvin

On Sunday I returned from the Calvin College Festival of Faith & Writing. What a great event! If you love books, writing, poetry, theology, the arts, intellectual engagement, etc., you’ll dig this biennial conference. I had the privilege of doing one solo presentation about my book, and I took part in two panel discussions–”Writing Toward [...]

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Breaking News About ‘Blues’

Prison Fellowship president Mark Earley delivered a generous commentary about my book yesterday on the ministry’s BreakPoint radio program. You can read and listen to it here. I’m grateful to Mark and PFM for the shout-out, and hopeful that the message of Reconciliation Blues will reach an even wider audience as a result.

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Barack Obama: A Bound Man?

One of the drawbacks of not working at Christianity Today any longer is that I’m not keeping up with all the new and forthcoming books. One that I totally missed until yesterday is Shelby Steele’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, which came out late last year. [...]

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Racism vs. Gracism

Okay, I’m busted. We’re now in the early days of autumn, and I never did follow up with part 2 of my “Late Summer Reading List” post. Ah, the perils of part-time blogging.
One of the books I had planned to mention is Gracism: The Art of Inclusion by David A. Anderson. I did an interview [...]

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Juan Williams: Bill Cosby Was Right

When you have a moment, check out my interview with NPR and Fox News journalist Juan Williams regarding his provocative book, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It.

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Late Summer Reading List, Part 1

Hello, hello. Is anybody out there? I’m hoping that everyone else has been as busy and preoccupied with summer stuff as I have. That way, you won’t be bothered by the fact that I haven’t blogged in nearly a month. Anyway, I figured I better post something, lest my blog host shut me down for [...]

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“Open Line” Radio Appearance

Hi there. Just wanted to let you know about a guest spot I did on Moody Radio’s Open Line last Friday. I’ve done a slew of radio interviews since the release of Reconciliation Blues, but I think I felt most comfortable during this one. Still, I’ve chosen not to listen or watch anything I’ve done [...]

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Exit Interviews & MLK Questions

This is just my second post as a blogger, so please let me know if I’m being too self-serving here. Oh, what the heck… Check out Christianity Today’s excerpt from Reconciliation Blues here. I’m grateful to my colleagues at CT for running the piece online and in the Feb. issue. Since I’m pretty candid in [...]

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Feels Like the First Time

Welcome to my blog. This is my first post. The Bears beat Seattle earlier today (barely), so all is calm in Chi-Town tonight.
In the days to come, I hope this blog can become a place for honest conversations about faith, life, and whatever is happening in the world. Oh, yes! I’ll probably want to chat [...]

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