by Chuck Poole | Aug 4, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
“There is no such thing as non-political Christianity.” The first time I stumbled across those words from Richard Rohr, they landed on my ears at an odd and awkward angle. Having spent a 45-year pastoral career trying to “keep politics out of the church,” I did not...
by Chuck Poole | May 17, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
While it is rarely possible to say with certainty exactly when and where a word or phrase was first imagined or spoken, the now familiar phrase “social gospel” appears to have entered the lexicon of the church sometime in the late 19th century. “Social gospel” names a...
by Charles Poole | Feb 18, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Charles Poole, senior pastor of Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 17, 2009. Acts 11:1-18 Now the apostles and the believers* who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also...
