Category: justice
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The Good, Racist People
I’ve taken a break from a lot of my normal online haunts during Lent and have surely missed a bunch of interesting articles and bits of news, though I’ve not generally been aware of missing anything. Thankfully a friend emailed me Ta-Neshi Coates’ op-ed in The New York Times; I wouldn’t have wanted to miss “The Good,…
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Pursuing Justice Intentionally Now
I recently corresponded with a former church member who now lives on the west coast. This young woman is oriented toward justice in a few specific ways and she was wondering about how these commitments will play out in the coming years. I shared the following thoughts about how someone, especially a younger person, might purposefully engage…
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“…the charge which I make against the Anglo American pulpit today…”
Another discouraging circumstance is to be found in the fact that the pulpits of the land are silent on these great wrongs. The ministers fear to offend those to whom they minister. We hear a great deal from their pulpits about suppressing the liquor traffic, about gambling, about Sabbath desecration, and about the suffering Armenians,…
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Grieving Every Slain Child
We welcomed a guest preacher at New Community this morning, so I took a few minutes before his sermon to reflect on the violence of this past week before we spent time in silence and prayer. Early on a Sunday morning in September 1953, four members of the Alabama Klu Klux Klan placed dynamite under…
David W. Swanson 