Category: church
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“Then white evangelicals voted for Mr. Trump by a larger margin than they had voted for any presidential candidate.”
Black congregants — as recounted by people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Fort Worth and elsewhere — had already grown uneasy in recent years as they watched their white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans. They heard prayers for Paris, for Brussels, for law enforcement; they heard that one should keep one’s eyes…
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Of Monsters and Money
A sermon about the empire’s money, the exile’s hope, and the Savior who would not be bought.
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“Church is not a place where we go to profess our virtue, but one where we go to confess our lack of it.”
Yet if the church is an alternative polis, one of its chief characteristics is the striking failure to be a fully realized moral alternative. Because we receive the Gospel from human hands, our human selfishness and limitations—marked by sin and the pain that comes with it—constitute a significant part of our story. I have seen pinprick glimpses…
David W. Swanson 