Category: book
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Will there be racists in heaven?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. A few weeks ago a friend retweeted a well-known bishop who is vocal in his opposition to racism who had declared something along the lines of: I’d rather not go to heaven if I’ve got to be there with white evangelicals. To…
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Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
I’ve started a personal newsletter which, so far, I’ve been posting weekly. I’ve not yet figured out its connection to this blog, but something I wrote for it seems to fit here. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. I’m reading Andrew Delbanco’s fascinating The War Before The War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for…
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Review of Whole and Reconciled
I recently reviewed Al Tizon’s new book, Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance. One of the defining and disappointing characteristics of western Christianity has been our instinct to bifurcate the church’s mission. Consider, for example, the countless ways we find to debate whether evangelism or justice should be our priority. Is it the church’s primary…
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“There is no good news in religion for those who have not turned or cannot turn. “
The first element of this [Christian] uniqueness is that the Christian faith glorifies as Son of God a man who was degraded and dehumanized by his fellow human beings as much as it is possible to be, by decree of both church and state, and that he died in a way designed to subject him…
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The Color of Life
I recently reviewed Cara Meredith’s new book, The Color of Life, for The Englewood Review of Books. On October 1, 1962, James Meredith enrolled in the University of Mississippi for his final year of college. What should have been a straightforward process involving applications and recommendations was anything but easy. Riots broke out on campus…
David W. Swanson 