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what is your personal food policy?
I really enjoyed The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan when I read it last year and now Maggie is reading that very enlightening and entirely entertaining book. A couple of days ago I saw that Pollan had solicited people’s food rules, or “personal food policies.” Pollan’s request, made via the New York Times, stems from…
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immigration? no. torture? yes. christian? for sure.
This morning I finished the very excellent book by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang, Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate. I’ll post a more thorough review later, but the following paragraph in the second to last chapter caught my eye and is worth sharing here. Indeed, there does seem to…
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home
The blog has been pretty quiet these days. All of family Swanson’s energies have gone to our move from Logan Square down to Hyde Park. On Tuesday night we closed on our condo (to those who warned of ridiculous amounts of paperwork, you were correct) and then the packing and moving kicked into high gear. …
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eugene peterson tells it slant
Eugene Peterson has been a favorite author for a few years now. Widely known for The Message translation of the Bible, my first exposure to the author and pastor came in grad school when we were assigned Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity. A few pages in and it became apparent that Peterson…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 