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David W. Swanson

Pastor and Author

  • Contact
  • Resources
    • Plundered
    • Rediscipling the White Church
    • Seminary Now Course
  • Dear White People

    I was surprised when Dear White People was made, more surprised when it won an award at Sundance, and borderline shocked when Justin Simien’s directorial debut got a distribution deal. I’ve been following Simien’s long-shot attempt for a few years since he first released a trailer that showed what he wanted to do with the college-comedy genre. From…

    David Swanson

    November 4, 2014
    film
    Dear White People, Film
  • “…to act as if this were true in any way we understand is to be ridiculous.”

    I feel it would be presumptuous of me to describe the ways of God. Those that are all we know of Him, when there is so much we don’t know. Though we are told to call him Father. And I know it would be presumptuous to speak as if the suffering that people feel as…

    David Swanson

    October 24, 2014
    book, quote
    marilynne robinson, Quote
  • The View From Here

    Halfway through our Sunday afternoon walk to Promontory Point.

    David Swanson

    October 20, 2014
    photos
    Chicago, photography
  • “I assume that experience is the experience of God.”

    Q: Some Christians talk about experiencing God. Do you experience God in some way? A: I assume that experience is the experience of God. If you think of experience as what is given to you—I mean day to day, the weather of your existence—that, I take it, is intelligible, and has purpose of a certain…

    David Swanson

    October 11, 2014
    book, quote
    Books, Quote
  • The View From Here

    Fall is coming to Chicago.

    David Swanson

    October 7, 2014
    photos
    Chicago, photography
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