Category: book
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eberhard arnold on awe and mystery
For my wife, my rednoW friends, and anyone else who actively cultivates a sense of wonder… The man with a sense of awe feels an ultimate mystery in everything that lives. He grows aware that the living, creative Spirit must be greater than all created life. Man stands amazed and awed before the tree in…
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back from vacation
Coming home from vacation is always rough, especially when it’s a really good vacation as the past week was for us. It helped that for our four hour flight from Portland last night we had the emergency aisle too ourselves (leg room!). So we stretched out, read our books, snacked on fresh Oregon blueberries and…
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vaction in oregon
I’m finishing up some last minute packing before going to NC3’s Sunday service. Following the service I have lunch and a meeting with many of NC3’s leaders and then a (hopefully) quick drive to the airport to make my 4:00 flight to Portland (via Denver and Salt Lake City, ugh). I’m not sure what blogging…
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consuming jesus
A few weeks back I mentioned that Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church was one of the top-3 books I’ve read this year. On Thursday I had the chance to interview the author, Dr Paul Louis Metzger, over the phone for Leadership Journal. Dr Metzger was very generous with his…
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“then the whisper put on flesh”
A few days back I mentioned that my friend (and now co-worker) Michael and I were beginning to read Then the Whisper Put on Flesh: New Testament Ethics in an African American Context by Brian K Blount. Dr Blount is the new president of Union Theological Seminary after teaching New Testament ethics at Princeton Seminary…
David W. Swanson 