As we continue to address the core concerns of African Americans, the Reformed African American Network has created a helpful worldview primer for a digital generation. And it’s in the form of a high-quality audio podcast appropriately named “Pass the Mic.” By interviewing key leaders in the Reformed community, addressing relevant topics and biblically handling […]
Each week we will try and highlight your favorite posts from RAANetwork’s blog and other great posts across the web. Check back each weekend in case you missed something. Top 3 Posts (RAAN) 1. United: New Book on Diversity by Trillia Newbell 2. Afrocentricity and the Church, Part 2 by Irwyn Ince 3. Have We Overcome? by Jeremy Williams Across […]
Each week we will try and highlight your favorite posts from RAANetwork’s blog and other great posts across the web. Check back each weekend in case you missed something. Top 3 Posts (RAAN) 1. Why John Piper Risks Dealing with a Controversial Topic like Race? 2. Joe Tells Christian Men to Pursue Her 3. Raising Financial Support: […]
Each week we will highlight your favorite posts from RAANetwork’s blog and other great posts across the web. Check back each Saturday in case you missed something. Top 3 Posts (RAAN): 1. Pridefully Reformed? by Cyril Chavis, Jr. The largely white, reformed circles, with their theological and cultural traditions, have much to teach the world and the […]
On December 30, 2013 at the conclusion of the Cross Conference hundreds of students stood up to indicate their commitment to return home and tell their churches that they desire to be sent as missionaries across the globe. A Holy Moment Thabiti Anyabwile used the term “holy moment” in a prayer afterwards and that’s a fitting […]
So, here we are in the holiday season. Thanksgiving is a few weeks behind us and we now find ourselves looking forward to the biggest (at least in my book) holiday of them all, Christmas. The holiday hype of sales, sports on TV, food and family time surrounds us. We expend much of our […]
We are pleased to announce the release of our brand new podcast Pass The Mic. Periodically, we will record live shows like the one here. Stay tuned for future updates. Description: Pass The Mic is the premier podcast of the Reformed African American Network. Every month Jemar and Phillip sit down with voices from across the […]
Happy RAANiversary! One year ago today we launched the RAANetwork website. The date was deliberate. October 31st is Reformation Day–a fitting anniversary to commemorate the Reformed African American Network (RAAN) because of why we exist. RAAN exists to fuel modern reformation in the African American community with a multi-ethnic mindset. We fuel that reformation by […]
We understand that sometimes it can be tough keeping up with the news and content that is published or occurring each week. Look for weekly posts of “Re-Digest” to find a quick guide to some things you may have missed or only skimmed. This is another chance to digest that material. If we missed something […]
The University of Alabama usually makes national headlines for winning football championships, but this week’s news brought more humbling attention to the institution. The U of A Greek system has remained a “bastion of segregation” throughout the university’s history until the present day. A story broke in the campus newspaper, Crimson and White, detailing the denial of an […]
RAANetwork is excited about the launch of a new website called The Front Porch. The site was launched by Thabiti Anyabwile, Louis Love, and Tony Carter, three pioneers and spiritual giants. We stand on these brother’s shoulders. Below is an excerpt from the site about what we should expect from The Front Porch: Not everyone has […]
Trillia Newbell is a name you should know. This woman of God is a prolific blogger, a burgeoning conference speaker, and now she’s an author. Her forthcoming book, United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity, combines Trillia’s touching personal story with timeless biblical truth. In it she conveys her heart for a more racially and ethnically diverse […]
While many people look to the Reformed African American Network (RAAN) to represent the unified opinion of Reformed Blacks, RAAN is not the voice, it’s a microphone. Reformed Blacks Are Not Monolithic It would be a mistake–though perhaps an understandable one–to read a post on RAAN and suppose, “This is what all Reformed Blacks think […]
How does one begin to explain this feeling? Korean culture has a name for it … they call it Han. Han: the overwhelming feeling of helplessness in the face of irreversible cultural sorrow; a cold fist that reaches deep into a people’s collective soul, only to pull away having grasped a fistful of emptiness and […]
A word once spoken can never be taken back. So goes the old African proverb, wisdom no doubt gleaned from a lesson that was learned the hard way. Last week, we all watched the train wreck that resulted in Paula Deen’s removal from the Food Network. While Ms. Deen’s racial slurs were reprehensible and offensive, […]
Last month, I transitioned out of my position as an intern with Reformed University Fellowship. For the past three years, I worked as staff with RUF at Jackson State University. Before Jackson State, I was apart of RUF at Belhaven University. I absolutely LOVE the ministry of RUF as a whole, but the presence of RUF at […]
Who would have thought a Cheerios commercial could spark racial rage? A recently released ad for the classic American cereal featured a White mother, a Black father, and an interracial child. The Commercial and Its Comments The child asks the mother if she’s sure Cheerios are good for the heart and when the mom replies that […]
Southern Baptist school’s dismissal of conservative outrages Southern Baptist leaders You may remember a story about Dr. Jarvis Williams, professor at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, whose contrast was not renewed, perhaps because of his traditional Christian views. I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Williams for a research project I did in seminary. He gives […]
Two Reformed African American brothers, Lance Lewis and Anthony Bradley, sat down at an event in Washington D.C. called “The Future of Race in American Evangelicalism.” The meeting was held as part of the book launch for Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership is Overlooked in White Christian Church and Institutions edited by Bradley […]
Here is a good article by George Weigel over at First Things entitled “Tribulation Compounded by Blasphemy.” As the Revised Standard Version renders the fourteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas remind the proto-Christians of Antioch that it is only “through many tribulations” that we enter the Kingdom of God. The New […]
