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Agnus Dei
He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth. -Isaiah 53:7-8; Acts 8:32-33
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In Praise of (Real) Books
Does the book have a future? You know, books made of paper with pages that must be turned. I’m genuinely unsure of the answer, though the way bookstores are closing and digital book sales are increasing make me wonder. As an unabashed lover of books – not simply the words but the physicality of covers…
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Church Planting Lessons: Vulnerability
This is the third in a series of posts about what I’ve learned about multi-ethnic church planting as we near the one-year anniversary of New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville. You may be interested in parts one and two. I’ve added a photo or painting from Bronzeville in each of these posts. I’m not sure…
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Weekend Reading
An article in The Root about the multiple costs of prioritizing incarceration over education. As federal, state and local governments across the nation slash their budgets to close looming shortfalls, there is one clear winner in the budget battles: correctional systems, which cost the nation nearly $70 billion annually. During the last two decades, funding…
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Christ’s “mulatto” flesh
In short, Christ’s flesh as Jewish, covenantal flesh is a social-political reality displayed across time and space into which the Gentiles are received in praise of the God of Israel. Given this, we must say that Christ’s flesh in its Jewish constitution is “mulatto” flesh. That is to say, in being Jewish flesh it is…
David W. Swanson
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