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Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
In 1995 Mark Noll wrote The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, a book directed towards Christian academics that was, thankfully, read widely beyond academia. The book’s hook came in a phrase often quoted over the past 15 years: The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. A…
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“…the worst day in history…”
September 11 has changed me. I’m going to preach as never before about Christ crucified as the answer to the question of what’s wrong with the world. I have also resolved to relentlessly reiterate from the pulpit that the worst day in history was not a Tuesday in New York, but a Friday in Jerusalem…
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Meals With Friends: Your Home or a Restaraunt?
On Sunday our church begins a series of sermons about hospitality. Related to this topic is something I often wonder about: Why has the setting for meals with friends and family shifted from the home to the restaurant? There must be many reasons for this (and I realize this shift isn’t true for everyone): less…
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Fox News and Reverse Discrimination
“Nearly 7-in-10 Americans who say they most trust Fox News say that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.” A recent survey by The Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Research Institute, “What It Means to be an American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America Ten…
David W. Swanson
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David W. Swanson 