It’s Sunday morning and the faithful have gathered. I tend to close out the rest of the world when I sit in the pew, but this morning I think about the fact that even with the time difference my oldest son is probably now sitting with the multiethnic Voice of Calvary Fellowship in Jackson, Mississippi. He’s there with some other guys on a work project. What I see around me is quite homogeneous compared to what he’s experiencing.

The pastor talks about John the Baptist and does an excellent job of helping me think about what it means to be radical. As a Christian publisher I’d have to say most of my work has more to do with changing the church than with changing the world. John the Baptist—being the prophet he was—saw that the “world” was going to change before the “church” changed.