Category: justice
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Preaching grace and justice (at the same time) to whole people
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week a few video clips from some amazing preachers made their way across my social media feeds. The first was from Rev. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign who, despite vehemently opposing this presidential administration, made it clear that…
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Remembering a [Christian] Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. I recently reviewed a new book about Ida B. Wells for The Englewood Review of Books. The book, Passionate for Justice: Remembering a Woman We Should Have Never Forgotten, was co-written by a retired white pastor and an African American professor.…
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“All of these fanatics were white.”
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. There was one place I wanted to visit during our recent 48 hours in Paris. Well, there were a bunch of places I hoped to visit, but there was one place in particular I wanted to sit. The Café de Flore was,…
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Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
I’ve started a personal newsletter which, so far, I’ve been posting weekly. I’ve not yet figured out its connection to this blog, but something I wrote for it seems to fit here. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. I’m reading Andrew Delbanco’s fascinating The War Before The War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for…
David W. Swanson 