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Ordination Testimony
This summer I’ll be ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Evangelical Covenant Church. On Friday I gave the following testimony about my call to ministry to a regional gathering of Covenant pastors. The best thing about the call to vocational ministry is also what makes this call so hard. In Ephesians…
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White Christ and Black Oppression
“To suggest that protest activity is irrelevant to Christ is to suggest that Blackness is irrelevant to Christ.”
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“Let there be a moratorium on such preaching!”
Legalists and antinomians are equally guilty of hermeneutical gerrymandering to annex New Testament texts to foreign modes of ethical discourse. Christian preachers, at least since the time of Clement of Alexandria, have preached hundreds of thousands of disastrous sermons that say, in effect, ‘Now the text says x, but of course it couldn’t really mean that, so we must see the underlying…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 