Category: Discipleship
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CRT: Enough Already!
I can predict when it will happen. During the past twelve months, I’ve been invited to more online Q & A sessions than I can remember with groups around the country who are reading Rediscipling the White Church. (Let me know if you’ve got a group reading the book and would like me to drop…
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Worship → Justice → Worship
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Last week I shared ten characteristics of biblical justice. (If you’re interested, I expanded the the list into an article for Missio Alliance.) Of those ten, I’ve found myself regularly returning to this one over the past year: justice begins…
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Ten Characteristics of Biblical Justice
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week I spoke (online) at a church in California. They had assigned me the topic of biblical justice which ended up being a good excuse to think about what we might actually mean by that phrase. Often, in my…
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Diplomacy Doesn’t Work
This was first published in my newsletter earlier this year. During our ministry staff devotions this week we ended up talking about what our Christian responsibility is to those in positions of power whose attitudes and beliefs about racial justice (among other areas) are damaging to people. These powerful individuals could be a parent, a…
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Hoping in Herod: An Election Day Lament
This was first published in my newsletter earlier this year. On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel…
David W. Swanson 