Each week we will 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. Misunderstood King by Mika Edmondson

As with most icons, King’s true life and thought have often fallen prey to his formidable legacy. As various factions play political football over King’s words and ideas, his theological contributions are often left untapped, except by the faithful few who know the King studies field of scholarship.

2. Church Planting in a Trailer Park: An Interview with Phil Fletcher by Jemar Tisby

“Why doesn’t someone plant a church in a mobile home park?” One noted theologian (https://twitter.com/drantbradley) has often made this challenge to evangelical leaders and denominations that tend to focus their attention on the inner-city and “reaching” blacks.

But we found a church planter who started a church in a low-income white community–a mobile home park–in Conway, Arkansas. And the church planter is black. His name is Phil Fletcher and we had a chance to ask him a few questions about his church plant, The Church at Oakwood, and the non-profit he started.

3. Anthony Bradley & Eric Metaxas Discuss Race, Justice and Cultural Engagement

Dr. Anthony Bradley and Eric Metaxas discuss their thoughts on questions like:

  • William Wilberforce disagreed with the slave trade, but did he believe in the dignity and worth of Africans?
  • Should Christians participate in politics?
  • Was the Civil Rights movement fundamentally Christian?
  • Is there a Political Party that exists that will not disappoint us? Is their one fully Christian?
  • Should Christians that write call themselves “Christian writers” or “Christians that write”?
  • Is abortion a political issue or a social justice issue?
  • Why are abortions on White women startlingly low compared to those on Black women?

Across the Web

1. How to Handle Discouragement in Ministry by Matt Smethhurst

2. Three Tips for Better Bible Reading by Andy Naselli

3. Helping Them Out: Thinking About Loved Ones Still in Places of Error by Louis Love

4. MLK, Jim Crow, and the Rule of Law by Dr. Anthony Bradley

What did we miss?