Category: Discipleship

• Young Leaders: Here Are 10 Ways to “Lead Up” for Reconciliation and Racial Justice

  My most recent article for Missio Alliance has been posted. The concept of leading up within organizations is common. Leading up, when done well, benefits the entire congregation, as the insights and innovations of youth are brought into conversation with the foresight and wisdom of older generations of godly leadership. This dynamic is important when…

  David Swanson

  April 16, 2019

  church, Discipleship, mission, race, theology

  Christianity, race

• 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.

  David Swanson

  January 21, 2019

  church, Discipleship, race, Scripture, theology

  Christianity, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

• 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…

  David Swanson

  July 17, 2018

  church, Discipleship

  Discipleship, race