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The New Jim Crow, Chapter 1
Richard Johnson and I are blogging our way through The New Jim Crow during the next few weeks. We’ll rotate between chapters, posting reflections and the questions this important book is raising for us. We hope these series of blog posts will encourage you to pick up the book and begin grappling with unsettling and …
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The View From Here
A white Jesse Jackson is portrayed in this 1988 piece, “How Ya Like Me Now?” by David Hammons. More on the MCA website.
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Are You Waiting for “The One”?
Last summer I officiated six different weddings for six very different couples and, if I’d known of it at the time, Are You Waiting for “The One”? is a book I would have recommended to each of them. Unlike so many Christian books about marriage, Margaret and Dwight Peterson have written an immensely down to…
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What is your hope for the church?
This morning I got an email from a friend at Christianity Today. He wanted to let me (and others) know about an interesting question the recently re-branded “media ministry” is asking its reader: What is your hope for the church? Despite how often I think about this sort of question, it took me a few…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 