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“…the charge which I make against the Anglo American pulpit today…”
Another discouraging circumstance is to be found in the fact that the pulpits of the land are silent on these great wrongs. The ministers fear to offend those to whom they minister. We hear a great deal from their pulpits about suppressing the liquor traffic, about gambling, about Sabbath desecration, and about the suffering Armenians,…
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The View From Here
One of Eliot’s favorite books – given to him by my parents – is The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, the story about the lighthouse that sits on the edge of Manhattan under the George Washington Bridge. We made our pilgrimage not long after arriving in New York last week. Maggie had thought…
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“…we revered heterosexual nuclear families…”
The casualties of this lack of imagination have been those people who don’t fit well into a network comprised of heterosexual nuclear families. This includes those sexual minorities who choose not to commit to mixed-orientation marriages, but it also includes people who don’t marry or can’t marry, people who don’t have children or can’t have…
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Actually, Segregation Matters
Rod Dreher is a conservative whose writing I often find insightful. However, his recent criticism of a New York Times article about Chicago gun violence is an adventure in missing the point. The New York Times reports today that the over 500 killings in Chicago last year were primarily gang members killing other gang members. The Times frames the…
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My 5 Favorite Books of 2012
During the year I collect a list of the books I read and then, in a completely unscientific process, choose the five I most highly recommend to you. This year I read 27 books – a pittance compared to some of your lists, but still enough to make choosing five a small challenge. Previous years’…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 