It’s not justice to justify the wicked, and it’s not justice to condemn the innocent. It’s not justice to justify criminals like Jacob Blake. It’s not justice to condemn good police officers. It’s not just an injustice—it’s an abomination before the Lord. Proverbs 17:15 says: “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the…
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Last week, my co-workers and I at the Canadian Centre For Bio-Ethical Reform went on a work retreat at the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and British Columbia. That would excite most people—but not me. I was terrified. I had never been so afraid in my life. I am deeply afraid of heights. And I’m especially…
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Two days ago, on August 27th, marked fourteen years since I became a Christian. And all month, I’ve been reminiscing about all the instruments of God’s grace that keeps me singing hymns of praise to him. These instruments of grace are faithful ministries that helped shape who I am today. These ministries helped shaped my…
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Eighty-eight days ago in Minnesota, George Floyd was apparently killed by police officer Derek Chauvin. And eighteen days afterward on June 12, a black man named Max Mason was posthumously pardoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Max Mason didn’t receive a pardon because of what happened to George Floyd eighteen days earlier in Minnesota….
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It might not look like it, but the most worn-out book in my personal library is the most precious thing I own. That book is the Student’s Life Application Bible, and it’s the first thing I purchased after I became a Christian fourteen years ago around this time in August 2006. The ESV Study Bible…
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One of the surest ways to turn some friends into enemies is to tell them the truth about racism and social justice. When I created this blog five years ago to help many of my friends think more biblically about racism and social justice, I didn’t think it would cost me their friendship. I never…
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Many young Christians didn’t learn how to understand justice from Scripture. So in college, they learned how to understand justice from culture. And now, they think injustice is justice. And they interpret Scripture through culture, not culture through Scripture. That’s why many professing Christians are more committed to Black Lives Matter than Biblical theology. But…
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They were made slaves by their neighbours before they were made slaves by strangers. They were hated by their cousins before they were hated for their colour. They were outcasts and oppressed in their Old World before they suffered over the sea—before they suffered under the sun in a New World. They were captives in…
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My white girlfriend recently said to me: “Sam, thank you for never making me feel bad about being white.” She said that because in 2020 my skin colour isn’t the most controversial pigment in our relationship—her skin colour is. Our culture in 2020 doesn’t tell me to feel guilty about my skin colour. Our culture…
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When I was a boy in Ghana, I once had a massive nail pierce through my foot, and I suffered through a makeshift surgery by my mom without anaesthesia. And that was significantly more enjoyable than reading this book. It’s astonishingly bad. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism…
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