Category: church
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Can white Jesus be saved?
First posted to my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week, in my little corner of the Internet, some people were wringing their hands about white Jesus. As statues and monuments to the Confederacy are being torn down, some people have begun to wonder whether it’s time to remove representations of Jesus which…
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On living counter to this racist culture assisted by the saints, including one or two white ones.
First published in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. What do you imagine when you hear racial segregation? I think many of us imagine the Civil Rights Movement. Maybe we think about a time when housing segregation was legal. But more than an ugly reality of a bygone era, we know that de-facto…
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In Defense of the Multiracial Church. Sort of.
This post first appeared in my newsletter. You can subscribe here. It was so good talking with Jemar Tisby, author of the essential The Color of Compromise, last week. We covered a lot of ground in an hour but I was especially interested in asking Jemar about how he thinks about multiracial churches. I’d picked…
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Preaching While White on MLK Sunday
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. It was obviously written for MLK Sunday, but I think the content remains relevant. A few years ago a friend invited me to preach at his mostly white suburban church the Sunday before MLK Day. I happened to have a couple…
David W. Swanson 