Christians have to stop putting politics ahead of the Gospel to advance racial reconciliation, according to a racially diverse panel at an event held in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
The MLK 50 Conference, a two-day event held on the 50th anniversary of when King was assassinated, was hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. A Wednesday panel focused on the issue of racial tension in the United States.
Christina Edmondson, dean for Intercultural Student Development at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, talked about the impact of the 2016 presidential election, saying there were “significant consequences” to Donald Trump winning.
“For those of us who wept as a result of it, we didn’t weep because we’re big fans of the Democrats. We wept because we knew the witness of the Church, not just the national but the global witness of the Church, was at stake,” said Edmondson.
Edmondson’s comments echo those of DesiringGod.org founder and Pastor John Piper, who in a November 2017 message said that he believed white evangelical…
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