The Gospel Coalition, in their ever-expanding crusade to sanctify leftist platitudes and repackage them as divine revelation, has once again outdone themselves. This April, they’re rolling out the red carpet for a diversity conference, and who better to headline the grand charade than Irwyn Ince, the self-styled ecclesiastical alchemist who turns racial grievance into a sacrament?
It’s called Beautiful Diversity: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best, because nothing screams “unity” quite like spending an entire conference listening to a pro-segregationist gripe about how divided we are.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s take a moment to bask in the sheer stupidity of it all. TGC—those masters of doctrinal shapeshifting—want to teach the church how to look “more like heaven.”
Pause for a second and let that sink in. The same organization that has spent the last decade fragmenting the church into identity cliques, that has elevated social activism over gospel proclamation, that has turned the pulpit into a therapist’s couch for racial neurotics—yes, they are now the arbiters of ecclesiastical unity. The irony here is suffocating.
And leading the charge? Irwyn Ince, the PCA’s high priest of woke ecclesiology. This is the same man who cheerfully presided over a racially segregated dinner at Resurrection Oakland Church, a PCA congregation, where white people were excluded from what was billed as a "Black Fellowship Dinner."
Hosted under the mask of “fostering community,” the event was nothing more than a repackaged version of segregation, only this time dressed up in the language of "affinity spaces." Attendees were told that this was a time for black congregants to "be themselves," a claim that only makes sense if you believe that racial identity takes precedence over Christian unity.
The result? A church-sanctioned racial barrier, fully endorsed by Ince, proving that in the woke imagination, the best way to achieve unity is by enforcing separation. Because, as Ince and his ilk would have you believe, the only way to heal racial division is through—brace yourself—more division. It’s as if someone hired a fire chief whose entire firefighting strategy consists of dousing everything in gasoline. Brilliant.