John Inazu’s new book, Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, which he co-edited with pastor Timothy Keller, came out in April of 2020. It brings together Christians from different professional, social, and ecclesiastical perspectives to model — as you could guess from the subtitle — faithful disagreement. The people you’ll find are:
- Claude Richard Alexander
- Rudy Carrasco
- Sara Groves
- Shirley Hoogstra
- Kristen Deede
- Johnson Warren Kinghorn
- Tom Lin
- Lecrae Moore
- Trillia Newbell
- Tish Harrison Warren
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Break the church-world divide.
Of the common threads we all experience, one is dissonance within the church, specifically with trying to explain to others how our professional engagement in different parts of the world is not only necessary but also really beautiful. We need to figure out how to soften the church-world divide that assumes everything outside the church is bad and instead l
This story is from Common Good issue 04.