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“…our increasing greed and our increasing anxiety…”
Horses and chariots in the ancient world of course had to do with armaments, the city filled with arms, instruments of self-securing, and there is no end to this either, because the arms must increase to match our increasing greed and our increasing anxiety. Many of the horses and chariots in the end, of course,…
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The View From Here
We’ve spent the past few delightful days with some friends on the Alabama coast. Tomorrow we’ll make the 15 hour drive back to Chicago.
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“…a special duty to act.”
Well, I’m a Christian. For me, climate justice is in part about answering the call to love one’s neighbors, as opposed to drowning or starving them. There is a deep ethical dilemma here — Americans will be victims of global warming, but we are also its greatest perpetrators, so we have a special duty to…
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The New Jim Crow, Chapter 3
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow. We’re rotating between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. Check out our posts on chapters one and two. __________________________________ So far we’ve seen how Michelle Alexander examines America’s historic racial caste system and the way…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 