David is an author and the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church who lives with his family on the South Side of Chicago. He is the founder and CEO of New Community Outreach, a non-profit organization dedicated to healing community trauma through restorative practices.
David’s first book, Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity was published with InterVarsity Press in 2020. His latest book with IVP, Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice, released in early October, 2024.
“One of my concerns is that the [polictical] language of ‘existential threat’ pulls our attention away from our local communities to something a bit more abstract and distant from ourselves. When as Christian people, the call is always to our neighbor and our literal next door neighbor.”