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A Man of Prayer
Today I’m flying home from Washington where I’ve spent the past few days with family remembering and celebrating my Grandpa Vanstone who passed away the day after Thanksgiving. It’s been a good few days doing what families do when a member dies: talking, eating, reminiscing, grieving, learning, and busying ourselves with the mundane details that…
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Published Elsewhere
Two pieces that were published elsewhere: a review of What’s the Matter With White People? by Joan Walsh for The Englewood Review of Books and a short essay for Leadership Journal about the “essence” of being a pastor. I continue to be thankful for publications like Englewood and Leadership for these opportunities to write.
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“…on the wrong side of history.”
What is more, the Church’s foundation documents (to say nothing of its Founder himself) were notoriously on the wrong side of history. The Gospel was foolishness to the Greeks, said St Paul, and a scandal to Jews. The early Christians got a reputation for believing in all sorts of ridiculous things such as humility, chastity…
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Drones & Cultural Formation
RAZ: Talk about the consequences of the end of a peacetime American president. ZENKO: Well, you see it in many areas. I mean, you see it in the media this unquestioning recognition that military solutions are sufficient means for U.S. conduct of foreign policy. RAZ: We’re enablers, essentially. ZENKO: We’re – I mean, the media…
David W. Swanson
Pastor and Author
David W. Swanson 