The NBA Is Better at Lament Than We in the CRC Are
This morning I saw how the NBA is handling the shooting of Jacob Blake by refusing to play and go on as if all is normal. I thought, “The NBA is better at lament than we are.”
Eric Nykamp is the Director of Worship Design at Madison Church's North Campus in Grand Rapids, MI. He also is the producer of the Antioch Podcast: Conversations About Biblical Antiracism.
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This morning I saw how the NBA is handling the shooting of Jacob Blake by refusing to play and go on as if all is normal. I thought, “The NBA is better at lament than we are.”
As white people, we need to stop trying to be the saviors. We need to be the John the Baptists. We have a role to play in the anti racism conversation, but it is a supporting role.
The Antioch Worship Leadership Podcast was created for multiethnic worship leaders to have a way to continue learning about worship and community life in multiethnic churches.
I have no words to express my sorrow.
I know God is sovereign.
i know God calls us to live in unity.
I know God calls us to both speak the truth and speak it in love.
...I'm more concerned for what it could mean if we do not adopt the Belhar, what this could mean for our denomination. I have for a long time been concerned that our denomination has made really...