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Remembering a [Christian] Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. I recently reviewed a new book about Ida B. Wells for The Englewood Review of Books. The book, Passionate for Justice: Remembering a Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten, was co-written by a retired white pastor and an African American professor.…
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Five Favorite Books from 2019
I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a bad year of reading, but if there is, this wasn’t it. I got to review some very interesting books: The 21 (see below), Passionate for Justice, and The Color of Life for The Englewood Review of Books and Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance which, along…
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Will there be racists in heaven?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. A few weeks ago a friend retweeted a well-known bishop who is vocal in his opposition to racism who had declared something along the lines of: I’d rather not go to heaven if I’ve got to be there with white evangelicals. To…
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Trying to Remember
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Yesterday morning I walked three quarters of a mile from my in-law’s home in Brownsville, TN to this roadside marker beside a small family cemetery. James Bond, a quick internet search will reveal, was once one of Tennessee’s largest slaveholders. By the…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 