Yeri

“The gospel should meet people at the point of their deepest confusion and at the height of their loftiest ideals. What matters most is that we bring Christ into every moment of human history and every point of human concern.”
― Christopher W. Brooks, Urban Apologetics: Why the Gospel Is Good News for the City

“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“The tendency to view the holistic work of the church as the action of the privileged toward the marginalized often derails the work of true community healing. Ministry in the urban context, acts of justice and racial reconciliation require a deeper engagement with the other—an engagement that acknowledges suffering rather than glossing over it.”
― Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

“We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse.”
― Christopher W. Brooks, Urban Apologetics: Why the Gospel Is Good News for the City