Category: church
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“I was in a holy place, a place for pilgrimage only a few miles from my home, and I had no idea that this church still existed.”
My friend Kevin Considine is a Catholic theologian whose work I always look forward to. I was especially interested in his most recent article because it engages with the theme of pilgrimage as an important, and thoroughly Christian, way of engaging the work for racial justice and reconciliation. He writes about an experience in the…
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Courageous Discipleship in an Idolatrous Nation
A sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1 on the Martin Luther King Day weekend, following the miscarriage of justice for Laquan McDonald.
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Children, Discipleship, and the Painful Way of Jesus
This morning I wrapped up a draft chapter about children’s ministry for the book on discipleship and race I’m working on. I began my ministry serving children, but that’s been quite a few years ago so it was good to spend a couple of weeks reading and thinking deeply about the church’s kids. There were…
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For White Christians Who Keep Supporting the President Despite Most Other Christians Asking Them to Reconsider
It’s election time again and during the two years since the last one I’ve thought about you a lot. Your enthusiastic support for the president sent a shiver through the American church which many of us are still trying to make sense of. It’s not that we’re surprised that so many white people voted for…
David W. Swanson 