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Just how much racism is in our DNA?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week I learned that there’s something called the World Socialist Website and that they published an interesting interview with James McPherson who’s book about the Civil War is exceptionally good. Anyway, the interview is ostensibly about The New York Times’ recently…
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“All of these fanatics were white.”
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. There was one place I wanted to visit during our recent 48 hours in Paris. Well, there were a bunch of places I hoped to visit, but there was one place in particular I wanted to sit. The Café de Flore was,…
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Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
I’ve started a personal newsletter which, so far, I’ve been posting weekly. I’ve not yet figured out its connection to this blog, but something I wrote for it seems to fit here. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. I’m reading Andrew Delbanco’s fascinating The War Before The War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for…
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“…life-transforming, Satan-crushing, God-glorifying…”
Could it be that in the West the presence of the demonic is muted not because demons have ceased to exist or never were, but for the precise reason that no one fights against nothing? Perhaps, as long as lukewarm faith exists, perhaps the demonic need not be troubled nor trouble themselves. While the purpose…
David W. Swanson
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