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“A commitment to the common good…”
The historic definition of the “common good” is the most good for all people. But today this definition has a competitor called the “public interest.” In this presupposed progressive view, the most good for the most people is all that matters. Only one word changed but the implications are enormous. A commitment to the common…
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The Interrupters
The best documentary I saw last year is airing on Frontline tomorrow evening. The Interrupters was directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and produced by Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here) and shows the heroic work of three different “violence interrupters” in Chicago. Check your local listings and be sure to see this film.
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“…less romance and more love…”
Perhaps what contemporary Christians need is less romance and more love… Real love is unitive and community forming; it weaves people together into familial and churchly networks of mutual care and dependence on one another and on God. Husbands and wives, neighbors and friends, children and grandchildren, widows and orphans, all are adopted by God…
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Will you read “The New Jim Crow” with us?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book that has rapidly become mandatory reading for anyone interested in issues of justice in America. I’m just a chapter in and am already impressed by Michelle Alexander’s ability to paint a complicated picture with gripping clarity. Pastor Rich Johnson of Sanctuary…
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“…the man at the end of the Protestant road…”
I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 