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Bill Melone gardens, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia.
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Bill Melone gardens, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia.
Bill MeloneTechnology
Every 'yes' we seek to say to a certain habit or form of life implies a thousand 'nos.' But we must always keep the thing we say 'yes' to at the center.
Bill MeloneFeatured
Isaac Adams serves as lead pastor at Iron City Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the founder of United? We Pray, a ministry devoted to praying about racial justice. The following transcripted interview revolves around his book, Talking About Race: […]
Bill MeloneFamilyFeatured
After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]
Bill MeloneFeaturedEvangelicalism
We live in a time of division, as many of us can wearily testify, but we also live in a time of disorientation. Navigating divisions can be challenging, but the challenge multiplies when we are disoriented, and that is a […]
Bill MeloneFeatured
Near the end of the 2009 movie Zombieland, Woody Harrelson’s character shares his deep grief at losing his three-year-old son. Tallahassee, the gun-slinging warrior who kills zombies by opening his car door into their faces while driving, is distraught. A […]
Bill MeloneFeaturedCurrent Politics
After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, educator Jane Elliot held an experiment with her elementary school students that she called “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes.” The experiment became famous, and she repeated it for various audiences for years, […]
Bill MeloneFeatured
Racial injustice has become an unavoidable topic for American Christianity. It challenges all levels of relational unity, from large ecclesial networks to personal friendships. When relational unity is challenged and fractured, we naturally search for the source of the problem, […]
Bill MeloneFeaturedAnthropology
Does Peter's sin in Galatians 2 include a kind of racism? Our answer to the question will inform our attitude toward 'whiteness' in American evangelicalism.