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Bridge Builders: Hank Johnson

Culture & Perspectives

Bridge Builders: Hank Johnson

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Hank Johnson shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. “I think it is one of the tragedies of our… Read On

Published August 18, 2016

Bridge Builders: Josh Crain

Culture & Perspectives

Bridge Builders: Josh Crain

In a current cultural climate fraught with racial tension and division, BIC pastor Josh Crain shares his insights and experience reaching across the divide to bring his community closer together. Here at The Meeting House, we are convinced that… Read On

Published August 18, 2016

Moving Toward the Vision

Moving Toward the Vision

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his disciples that they were to be “witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” For Christ’s disciples today, “Jerusalem” refers to our local area—our people group… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

The Beauty in the Mess

The Beauty in the Mess

I was born in Santa Barbara, California — gorgeous, clean, sunny Santa Barbara. Eight years ago, I bought a home in Kensington, a notoriously poor and drug-ridden section of Philadelphia. For the first few years I lived here, trash would rain into… Read On

Published July 28, 2014