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Violence
I’ve been thinking about violence recently and mean to consider it here from a few different angles. Here’s the first: Last week I sat at a table at our public radio station’s South Side bureau with a diverse collection of people from around the city. Our conversation topics – expertly led by one of my…
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Hazardous Discipleship
Ed Cyzewski and Derek Cooper have written a very helpful book about discipleship. Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus could almost be considered an introduction to discipleship, though the authors push beyond the introductory to describe a way of living that is as compelling as it is risky. Ed was kind enough to answer…
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The View From Here
Warwick, NY. This has been the beautiful view for the past couple of days while speaking at a retreat for the young adults of Metro Church. We’ve got one more session this morning and then I drive to the South Bronx to worship and eat with friends.
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“…dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus…”
The task of prophetic theology today includes dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus who is leading an intercultural movement of love and justice. While the colonial imagination viewed white Europeans as God’s elect in the New World, the Scriptures repudiate this hierarchical racial logic and ground Christian identity in the election of the Jews. Israel, understood as the…
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Life: A Series of Transitions
I’m preparing a series of talks for an upcoming retreat on the topic of life transitions. I’ve been mulling this word – transitions – over in my head for the past month or so and two observations have consistently come to mind. First, I don’t like transitions. In many ways the past three years of…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 