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The View From Here
The Chicago lakefront this time of year is absolutely beautiful. And, unlike the other three seasons, we almost always have it to ourselves during these chilly months.
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“There is no good news in religion for those who have not turned or cannot turn. “
The first element of this [Christian] uniqueness is that the Christian faith glorifies as Son of God a man who was degraded and dehumanized by his fellow human beings as much as it is possible to be, by decree of both church and state, and that he died in a way designed to subject him…
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“I was in a holy place, a place for pilgrimage only a few miles from my home, and I had no idea that this church still existed.”
My friend Kevin Considine is a Catholic theologian whose work I always look forward to. I was especially interested in his most recent article because it engages with the theme of pilgrimage as an important, and thoroughly Christian, way of engaging the work for racial justice and reconciliation. He writes about an experience in the…
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The Color of Life
I recently reviewed Cara Meredith’s new book, The Color of Life, for The Englewood Review of Books. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith enrolled in the University of Mississippi for his final year of college. What should have been a straightforward process involving applications and recommendations was anything but easy. Riots broke out on campus…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 