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Weekend Reading
After reading Paul Salopek’s review of In Motion: The Experience of Travel by Tony Hiss, I promptly added the book to my wishlist. The most lyrical passages in In Motion describe how the 2003 blackout in New York jarred an entire bustling metropolis — the apex of sedentary life — into a state of Deep…
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Church Planting Lessons: Relational Networks
This is the second 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. Part one can be found here. Two years ago I knew two people in Bronzeville. As I became more involved with our church planting efforts…
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What would you say about Christianity at an interfaith discussion?
On Wednesday evening I’m participating in an “Interfaith Discussion” at a local university. There are five of us on the panel, each representing our own faith (or non-faith). It is, frankly, a bit intimidating (and impossible) to be the representative of Christianity, but I’ll do my best. Each of the leaders are being asked to…
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His Second Birthday
Eliot turned two today and we celebrated with family and chocolate cake. A week ago we were returning from an overnight in the hospital after Eliot was diagnosed with pneumonia, so the celebration was particularly special today.
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Weekend Reading
A nice article about a new community garden in Bronzeville. Last August, on this corner of Chicago’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood, neighbors and guests mingled over refreshments featuring recently harvested fresh vegetables and herbs. They were celebrating Chicago’s newest South Side urban garden, located on the western edge of the community where Chicago-bound African-Americans settled after…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 