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why i’ll miss parkview (1)
Yesterday was my second-to-last Sunday at a Parkview Community Church service. I’ve mentioned before on this blog that Maggie and I will be moving into the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago in early May. On May 11 I will begin my new job as Pastor of Community Life at New Community Covenant Church. Yesterday was…
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death cab for cutie, “i will posses your heart”
In honor of the Death Cab for Cutie concert tickets I got this week, it seems right to post the first video for their latest album, Narrow Stairs. The song has a long intro (too long?), but seems to fit with the feel of the video. How cool would it have been to travel to…
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christian witness as invitation to pilgrimage
Missional Church is one of those books I return to with some regularity. On Wednesday, while working from Caribou on my upcoming sermon I came across the following passage. After showing it to Bob (who was also working out of the coffee shop), he said something like, “You should just stand up, read that, pray…
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our new home
A number of folks have been asking whether Maggie and I have found a place to live in the city. As of yesterday afternoon I can happily report that we have. Click on the map to see where we’ll be living when we move in a couple of weeks. On Sunday afternoon I had three…
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links
Prof Stackhouse takes on certainty in Christianity. It’s long but very worth the read. The main point today, however, is that one also cannot claim to be in an epistemic situation of certainty, either. For how could a human being claim such a thing? We all too often are mistaken about things, change our minds…
David W. Swanson
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