John Wilson: A Pastor Connected to His Community

John Wilson was one of the most significant church and public leaders in 19th-century England. As the pastor of Woolwich Tabernacle—which merged together with Conduit Road Baptist in 1969 to form Woolwich Central Baptist where I serve as pastor— Wilson exercised...

When You’re Suffering, Why Does God Feel Absent?

My daughter asked me a big question the other day. “Dad, why did God make bees and mosquitoes?” I could see her 5-year-old theological wheels turning as she pondered the mystery of why a God who cares for her and who is powerful enough to make whatever he...

William Tolbert Jr.’s Triple Legacy to Liberia

May 13, 2014, would have been the 101st birthday of William Richard Tolbert Jr. Thirty-four years ago, April 12, 1980, Tolbert, the 20th president of Liberia, was assassinated in a coup d’état that ended the so-called First Republic of Liberia and served as a...