Category: church
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Responding to the “White Anxiety Crisis”
It’s now widely known that by 2050 white folks will not represent a majority of the overall U.S. population. Changing demographics are nothing new but this impending shift has generated a whole lot of interest and eye-catching headlines. I’ve been thinking about these numbers and wondering how we currently in the majority will respond. Recent…
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The Future of Hope…
…is what we’re calling our very first sermon series at New Community Bronzeville. It’s hard to believe that we’re less than 24 hours away from beginning weekly services. Any chance you can join us tomorrow? There are so many things I’m looking forward to about this new church, and one of them is the chance…
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A Christian Sexual Alternative?
My latest article for Out of Ur was posted a couple of weeks ago. The title caught my eye: “Reverend reconciles sex and religion.” Was another church challenging married couples to make time for sexual intimacy for seven days straight? A pastor making headlines for an edgy sermon about the goodness of sex? A review…
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The NAE on Immigration Reform
The National Association for Evangelicals recently released a position paper on immigration. Because this group represents many within the hard-to-categorize evangelical subculture, this paper is especially noteworthy. While the paper points out the illegality of undocumented immigration, it takes a mostly sympathetic view of the experience of many undocumented immigrants. The following paragraph impresses for…
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White Men in Leadership: A Response
As soon as I posted “On being a white man in leadership” on Sunday I emailed Christina Martinez (see Christina’s bio below) and asked if she’d be willing to read it over and write a response. Christina is a co-worker in mission at New Community Covenant Church and someone whose insight and instincts I highly…
David W. Swanson 