Author - Malcolm Foley

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Malcolm Foley (PhD, Baylor University) is a pastor, historian, and speaker who serves as special adviser to the president for campus engagement at Baylor University. He has written for Christianity Today, The Anxious Bench, and Mere Orthodoxy. His recent book, The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (Brazos, 2025), calls the people of God to resist racialized capitalism. Foley co-pastors Mosaic Waco, a multicultural church in Waco, TX.

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Biblical Studies

To Have or to Hold? What the Bible Says About Money

Malcolm FoleyNovember 4, 2025

Why did David kill Goliath? Was it because of a selfless devotion to God and his people, or perhaps something else? First Samuel 17:25–26 gives the answer: David asked what would be done for the person who could kill Goliath. Even the most beloved...

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Church History

Endurance Produced by Suffering: The Black Church in America

Malcolm FoleyFebruary 10, 2025

American Christianity is, in many ways, a cultural and denominational hodgepodge. Colonization led to certain emphases among American Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Baptists. And as Pentecostalism, Methodism, and others were added to the American...

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Church History Theology

Black Political Theology: An Anti-oppression Faith

Malcolm FoleyOctober 22, 2024

To profess the Christian faith is to make a profound theological and political claim. If God raised Jesus from the dead, that necessitates we confess him as Lord. But to declare Jesus is Lord in a world of many lords is a dangerous thing to do. Over...