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chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods
On Monday a friend emailed me an article with the subject, “Bronzeville Dubbed 2nd Most Dangerous Neighborhood.” A few minutes later a similarly ominous article was waiting in my Google News headlines. Given the increasing amount of time I’ve spent in Bronzeville working on the New Community church plant, both of these articles were hard…
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happy saturday: farmers markets
A month ago I mentioned a few reasons we enjoy shopping at our local farmers markets. This morning Eliot and I went searching for cherries at the Green City Market.
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church planting in bronzeville
It looks like church planting will be a major theme for me this year. We are continuing to move forward with plans to plant New Community Bronzeville sometime- God willing- in early 2010. Because some of us who are involved with this new church are not currently residents of Bronzeville, I asked some neighborhood experts…
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out of ur: gran torino
Here is this month’s Out of Ur column. Clint Eastwood taught me something the other day. The veteran actor and director’s latest film sheds light on the tendency by many of us to seek the cultural values of homogeneity, stability, and comfort rather than finding God in the midst of our confusing, painful, and volatile…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 