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Mosaix 2013
This week I’ll be at the Mosaix 2013 conference in California. As the pastor of a multi church, there aren’t a lot of conferences where I can show up and assume that folks share my commitment to multi ethnic (racial, cultural) ministry. Mosaix 2013 will be that kind of a conference. I’ll be wearing a…
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“Unclench those fingers.”
When crowds gather, to check out this new source of entertainment or outrage, to see if he’s conducting himself like a teacher or a prophet or just possibly like a guerrillero looking for recruits- when the crowds gather, he sits them down in the sheep pasture, and he says: behave as if you never had…
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Dear White Christian Leaders, Don’t Do It.
Last week brought disheartening news from white-evangelical-church-world. A well-publicized men’s conference was reported to have used both women and gay people as punchlines to jokes told from the stage. And, in An Open Letter from the Asian American Community to the Evangelical Church, a group of influential Asian American Christians pointed out a bunch of…
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Bill Moyers Interviews Wendell Berry
There is so much that is good in this interview with Wendell Berry, including this: “A lot of my writing, when it hasn’t been in defense of precious things, has been a giving of thanks for precious things.” Thanks to Englewood Review of Books for pointing to this.
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The View From Here
I spent the past few days in Keystone, CO attending church planting meetings. The view was beautiful in every direction.
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
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