David W. Swanson

Al Hsu wonders if rising gas prices will cause suburban churches to consider a parish-like way of ministry. I’m hopeful that all of this is going to push suburbanites toward a new localism. For Christians, it’s a recovery of the parish concept, where we live, work, shop and worship all in the same community instead…

Given on July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, is profound in many ways. Two excerpts: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty…

My family knows me very well. For my birthday I was given gift certificates for Amazon.com. On Saturday I used some of the money to order the following… Sigur Ros, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust Radiohead, In Rainbows The National, Boxer Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a…