“Scripture speaks to the moral dimensions of political realities, and insofar as it does, I think we do need to speak to those things as Scripture informs us.”

In this new roundtable video, Mika Edmondson (pastor of New City Fellowship OPC in southeast Grand Rapids), Kevin DeYoung (senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and board chairman The Gospel Coalition), and Jason Cook (pastor of preaching at Fellowship Memphis and TGC staff member) discuss the extent to which politics belongs in the pulpit.

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Mika Edmondson is the pastor of New City Fellowship OPC, a Presbyterian church in Southeast Grand Rapids. He earned a PhD in systematic theology from Calvin Seminary and wrote The Power of Unearned Suffering, a book about Martin Luther King Jr.’s theology of suffering.

Kevin DeYoung (PhD, University of Leicester) is senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church (PCA) in Matthews, North Carolina, and associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte). He is the author of more than 20 books and a popular columnist, blogger, and podcaster. Kevin’s work can be found on clearlyreformed.org. Kevin and his wife, Trisha, have nine children.

Jason Cook is associate pastor of preaching at Fellowship Memphis. He earned his MDiv from Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, where he helped to build Iron City Church, a multi-ethnic ministry in one of America’s most segregated cities. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Mississippi on a football scholarship. He is married to Courtney, and they have two children, Charlie and Cager. You can follow him on Twitter.