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David W. Swanson

Pastor and Author

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    • Rediscipling the White Church
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  • “Oh, yes, rowdy old capitalism. Let it ply its music.”

    Workers, a category that seems to subsume us all except the idlest rich, should learn what they need to learn to be competitive in the new economy. All the rest is waste and distraction. Competitive with whom? On what terms? To what end? With anyone who has done a clever thing we did not think…

    David Swanson

    March 28, 2018
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  • “Then white evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump by a larger margin than they had voted for any presidential candidate.”

    Black congregants — as recounted by people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Fort Worth and elsewhere — had already grown uneasy in recent years as they watched their white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans. They heard prayers for Paris, for Brussels, for law enforcement; they heard that one should keep one’s eyes…

    David Swanson

    March 9, 2018
    church
    Christianity, race
  • Some Kind of Mob

    St. Augustine on why the USA will never be good for all.

    David Swanson

    March 3, 2018
    theology
    Christianity, Justice, Theology
  • Of Monsters and Money

    Of Monsters and Money

    A sermon about the empire’s money, the exile’s hope, and the Savior who would not be bought.

    David Swanson

    February 25, 2018
    church, Scripture, theology, uncategorized
    Christianity, Money, sermon, Theology
  • Make Babylon Great Again

    The delusion of mistaking our exile for home.

    David Swanson

    February 21, 2018
    church, Scripture, theology
    Bible, Christianity, Theology
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