I recently contributed an essay to a new online community, Living in Truth, aimed at supporting, encouraging, and cultivating a distinctly orthodox Reformed voice within Canadian Christianity. The essay, entitled, “The Crucifixion of Ideology,” emerged from a sermon I preached during Black History Month a year and a half ago. The assigned Gospel reading for the day, John 3, proved to be the stimulus for some important theological reflection on some of the cultural struggles facing Western cultures today. You can read the essay here.
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A Sermon for Black History Month
Below is a recording of a sermon I preached this past Sunday at Prairie Presbyterian Church. My text was John 3:1-21. As I was working on the sermon, I began to notice interesting connections between the story of Nicodemus’s encounter with Jesus and our current cultural struggles surrounding race in North America. The fact that I’ve been reading Jonathan Tran’s insightful book, Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism, is also surely a contributing factor. The first part of the sermon is sure to aggravate cultural warriors on the left and the right, but I do think the second half gestures towards a more distinctive Christian approach to this set of problems. Continue reading A Sermon for Black History Month