As I have noted before, I had the humbling pleasure of writing the forward to Thabiti’s new book “May We Meet in the Heavenly World:  The Piety of Lemuel Haynes”.  It begins:

Years ago I found a friend and hero in Lemuel Haynes. Being Reformed has at times been lonely. When I first began to embrace the biblical and historical theology of the Reformation, I looked and listened around and found no one who looked and sounded like me. Admittedly, this was before the internet boom and the on-demand access to information both contemporary and historical. Nevertheless, the heroes of the Reformation always came up as white European and American. While this is no reason to accept or reject truth, it does cause one to pause and contemplate the conspicuous absence of non-white voices (read entire foward ).