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We Wait
I’ve seen very few new movies this year but I suspect that even if I’d seen a bunch more I’d still think 12 Years A Slave was the year’s best. Here’s a short reflection provoked by the film that I wrote last week for our church newsletter. “Daddy, are we getting close?” I won’t even try to guess how…
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Turned Inside Out By Suicide
My friend Stephen Woodworth has written tenderly about a subject too easily avoided. Subject isn’t quite right; suicide is an experience, a moment, a tragedy, an ending and beginnings. Last week I heard that a former coworker had taken her life. It’s a confounding event that most of us have brushed up against and Stephen has written…
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Readers on Reading: Brandon Wrencher
Brandon Wrencher is a Master of Divinity student at North Park Theological Seminary, editor of the CCDA Theological Journal, intern pastor of Blackburn’s Chapel United Methodist Church and a resident of The Blackburn House, a Christian intentional community which serves Blackburn’s Chapel and the town of Todd, North Carolina. You can read more from Brandon…
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The View From Here
Happy Thanksgiving from Brownsville, TN. After all these years blogging, I’m still surprised that folks read what I write here. So thanks to you, the regular readers of this blog. Whatever memories and activity this Thanksgiving day (or not) holds for you, I hope there are plenty of reasons for gratitude.
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Disunity In Christ
I think about Christian unity a lot. I’m convinced that unity is one of the first implications of the Gospel though it is often the first implication to be overlooked, reduced, or explained away. As much as I’m theologically convinced about the priority of unity I’m even more convinced emotionally. Belonging to multi-ethnic congregations for…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 