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Welcome to the gospel coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers, pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

Today, you'll hear a panel discussion with Mark Vrogup, Corey Porter, and Irwin Inz.

On how lament leads to racial reconciliation, this panel was held at TGC's 2021 National Conference.

Well, today our aim is to have a helpful dialogue about how lament and racial reconciliation go together,

or maybe to think about it this way how lament opens a door for racial reconciliation.

So we're not going to suggest that lament solves all the problems.

We're going to suggest that it may be a tool that could help shape the nature of the conversation to move us to a better place together in the church and individually.

So I've got some friends that we're going to dialogue together with.

So Irwin and Corey, thank you so much for joining us today.

And Jason Cook was supposed to be with us.

Unfortunately, he had a flight cancellation, so he's not able to be on the panel today.

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