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On living counter to this racist culture assisted by the saints, including one or two white ones.
First published in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. What do you imagine when you hear racial segregation? I think many of us imagine the Civil Rights Movement. Maybe we think about a time when housing segregation was legal. But more than an ugly reality of a bygone era, we know that de-facto…
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How brave will we be?
First posted in early June in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. It’s Saturday evening. It’s been a hell of a week. A hellish week. From within a pandemic, the country has exploded, sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. Helicopters have hovered near our apartment most nights…
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Covering Our Nakedness With Lament
First posted in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. In his little book about race, The Hidden Wound, Wendell Berry grapples with his history as a member of a southern land-owning family and how his racial whiteness impacts him in ways he’d previously been oblivious to. He’s willing himself to wake up. “What…
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In Defense of the Multiracial Church. Sort of.
This post first appeared in my newsletter. You can subscribe here. It was so good talking with Jemar Tisby, author of the essential The Color of Compromise, last week. We covered a lot of ground in an hour but I was especially interested in asking Jemar about how he thinks about multiracial churches. I’d picked…
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Whose liberation?
I first published this in my weekly newsletter. You can subscribe here. This week saw a weird development in our collective stay-at-home reality. The president, encouraged I assume by conservative media, has begun calling for states to be liberated from the lock-downs that are in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19. LIBERATE MINNESOTA!— Donald…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 