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war dance
On Wednesday evening I watched a documentary with some friends that I’d first seen at Sundance in 2007. War Dance tells the story of three Ugandan children who have been profoundly affected by their country’s ongoing civil war. The experiences these children recount are unbelievably tragic: stories of murder, abduction and displacement color their childhood…
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purple state of mind
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the documentary, Purple State of Mind, that I was planning to see at Wheaton College. I was negligent in posting a review of the film (that whole moving thing), but my friend Bob Davidson has come through over at rednoW.com. When “a Christian and atheist walk into a…
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a first for me
Yesterday afternoon I had a chance to record four conversations with Skye Jethani and Matt Tebbe for the inaugural Leadership Journal podcast. Skye is Leadership’s managing editor and Matt is a pastor at Life on the Vine in Long Grove, a church I’ve watched with interest from a distance. Skye’s idea was to have 4…
David W. Swanson
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