tag: missional

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Hank Johnson shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies…

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Josh Crain shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. Here at The Meeting House, we are convinced that the Church has a critical role to play in the ongoing racial divide within the United States…

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his disciples that they were to be “witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." For Christ’s disciples today, “Jerusalem” refers to our local area—our people group. “The ends of the earth” refers to all the nations of the world…

I was born in Santa Barbara, California — gorgeous, clean, sunny Santa Barbara. Eight years ago, I bought a home in Kensington, a notoriously poor and drug-ridden section of Philadelphia. For the first few years I lived here, trash would rain into my backyard from neighboring rooftops (cereal boxes…