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A Sermon: Take Up Your Lynching Tree and Follow Me.
A lightly edited version of yesterday’s sermon from Mark 8:27-9:1 at New Community. Our passage begins: “Jesus & his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi.” This geographical context is important. Mark wants us to remember that Jesus is first recognized as Messiah near Caesarea Philippi, that he Jesus first predicts his execution near Caesarea…
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Embracing the Other
My review of Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s recent book, Embracing the Other, has been posted at the Englewood Review of Books. She borrows from the Asian concept of Chi to “imagine God [in a way] that captures energies of divine love that are the divine essence and permeate the community of creation.” The goal of this reimagining project is…
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My Blue Bucket of Gold
Apropos of nothing, I’ve been listening to Gallant nonstop for the past three days. Here he is with Sufjan Stevens singing “My Blue Bucket of Gold.” That falsetto. I’m undoubtedly late to knowing about Gallant. Who can I blame for this?
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“…white men have a vested interest in upholding the racial hierarchy…”
To people of color like me, the movement toward a more level playing field is occurring at a painfully glacial pace. But to many white men, the change is happening so fast and it all seems so painful! Sociologists Henderson and Herring note that when white men begin to feel the effects of equality (e.g.,…
David W. Swanson
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David W. Swanson 