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“…a black man in the White House and nearly one million black men and women in the Big House.”
Most Americans see inequality – and the racial habits that give it life – as aberrations, ways we fail to live up to the idea of America. But we’re wrong. Inequality and racial habits are part of the American Idea. They are not symptoms of bad, racist people who fail to live up to pristine…
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In Defense of Christian Un-Love
Why loving Donald Trump’s supporters might be too much to ask of this particular Christian.
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“If you don’t expect to live past twenty-two…”
Fifty years after King’s visit to Marquette Park, Chicago remains one of the country’s most racially segregated large cities. Redlining is long over, but its legacy is inscribed on the neighborhoods. Some of those areas are poorer than they were at the time of King’s marches. In Englewood, on the South Side, poverty has grown…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 