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Who Am I in Christ? The Bible Tells Me How God Sees Me

In Lecrae’s song “Dirty Water” he points out the damage done by telling, being told, and believing lies about who we are: “Worthless, worthless, 400 years we done heard that My family…

Russ Meek May 6, 2020

For the Church

Pure Religion in James 1:27: Thoughts on Foster Care and Christian Spiritual Formation

I’ve written before about my struggles with foster care. It’s revealed some dark truths about my own heart that I would have preferred not be there. It’s been over a year now that Andrew*…

Russ Meek April 1, 2020

ERLC

God is Father to the Fatherless, So Christians Must Love the Fatherless among Us

The United States Census Bureau reports that more than one out of every four children in the United States lives without a father—biological, adoptive, or step—in their home. Children without fathers are at a substantially higher…

Russ Meek March 22, 2020

The Day My Foster Son Leaned into Me

Andrew[1] can’t articulate why he doesn’t trust me, but his body knows. Where my other two sons, both around his age, will lean against me while we watch TV (I know, parent…

Russ Meek March 5, 2020

Sometimes Life Really Sucks. Ecclesiastes Tells Us How to Deal.

Russ Meek March 2, 2020

I Was Wrong. I’m No White Knight

I’m a white, middle class man. I attend a church of mostly white, middle class people. My church is located in the middle of a very poor, almost exclusively black neighborhood. The…

Russ Meek February 28, 2020

The Gathering Place West

Audio: Ecclesiastes: The Genesis Framework and Meaning of Hebel

Russ Meek February 27, 2020

Sojourners

The Burden of Safety Doesn’t Lie with the Abused

On Friday, Megan Twohey, one of the journalists who broke the story about Harvey Weinstein’s alleged abuse, released an interview she conducted with Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s criminal defense attorney. As the interview came to…

Russ Meek February 13, 2020

You’re Home Now: Hannah Kate Williams’s Story of Abuse and Hope in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

Hannah Kate Williams is a survivor of sexual abuse. Her daughter, Evie Ruth, is a victim of sexual abuse. She would be twelve years old now, but she never had the chance…

Russ Meek February 11, 2020

Sojourners

Inside the Fight to Keep an Abuse Apologist off the Church Stage

“If you stand up to sexual abuse, you must remain standing,” Susan Codone recently told me. She’d said the same thing on Twitter in response to news that Paige Patterson, former president of Southwestern…

Russ Meek February 7, 2020

Articles by Russ Meek

Pure Religion in James 1:27: Thoughts on Foster Care and Christian Spiritual Formation

God is Father to the Fatherless, So Christians Must Love the Fatherless among Us

The Day My Foster Son Leaned into Me

Sometimes Life Really Sucks. Ecclesiastes Tells Us How to Deal.

I Was Wrong. I’m No White Knight

Audio: Ecclesiastes: The Genesis Framework and Meaning of Hebel

The Burden of Safety Doesn’t Lie with the Abused

You’re Home Now: Hannah Kate Williams’s Story of Abuse and Hope in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

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