Category: church
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Litany for the 2016 Election… and today.
A president has been elected for whom money is god, for whom celebrity is currency, and for whom laws are manipulated for personal gain.
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Gentrified Church-planting
After an ad for a new church on the west side of Chicago popped up in my Instagram feed the other day, I posted this: From ad in my IG feed: "Did you know there is a gospel-centered, bible-believing church coming to your neighborhood?" There've long been gospel-centered, bible-believing churches in this now-gentrifying neighborhood. IOW:…
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Transgressing Whiteness
Almost daily I hear someone claim that the president has crossed a new line, that surely now his white Christian supporters will abandon him, or at least acknowledge (some of) his faults. It happened again yesterday after his press conference with Russia’s president. But this hoped-for line will never be crossed. This president will never…
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The (Criminal) Body of Christ
When human beings are reduced to criminals, it is time for the church to become criminal as well.
David W. Swanson 