Category: justice
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a response to the recent violence in chicago
Peter Hong, the lead pastor of the church I’ll begin working at in a couple of weeks, posted some thoughts about the recent violence in Chicago. Nine people killed in 36 different shootings throughout the city (SEE this article). Reflecting on the senseless tragedy, I experienced a myriad of emotions—sadness and grief for the families…
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economic stimulus payments (subverted)
During the sermon on Sunday I interviewed my friend Chuck about an idea he had about how to spend the Economic Stimulus Package checks most of us will be getting in the mail. Yesterday I wrote about his idea for Out of Ur. “I thought that spending my check from the government was supposed to…
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guest post: a question for michael
Michael Washington was one of the first people I met at Wheaton College Graduate School in 2000. Even though we only had one class together we quickly became friends. Maggie and I had just been married for a year and Michael was soon to be married to Dawn. Over the past 8 years our friendship…
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links
Maggie and I don’t have children, but I still found this interview with Pamela Paul in Salon really interesting. The playpen is something that all of our parents used. You plopped the kid in it, and then you ran to take the laundry out of the washing machine, and throw it in the dryer, or…
David W. Swanson 