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Worship → Justice → Worship
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Last week I shared ten characteristics of biblical justice. (If you’re interested, I expanded the the list into an article for Missio Alliance.) Of those ten, I’ve found myself regularly returning to this one over the past year: justice begins…
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Ten Characteristics of Biblical Justice
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week I spoke (online) at a church in California. They had assigned me the topic of biblical justice which ended up being a good excuse to think about what we might actually mean by that phrase. Often, in my…
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Unexceptional in Exile
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. One of the things about being in a wilderness or exile situation is that you really want to believe you’re not. Maybe this is what made the recently liberated Hebrew people susceptible to misremembering their years in Egypt. It could…
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Manifest Destiny and Black Faith
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Not long ago I noticed how often over the past few years I’ve been returning to the biblical themes of wilderness and exile. There’s a lot to say about these themes and I hope to explore some of them in…
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The View From Here
We spent a portion of this chilly spring day walking one of our favorite trails at the Indiana National Lakeshore. Just as we were getting started, we crossed a wetland where we spotted a group of Sandhill Cranes.
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 