Category: mission
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to withdraw or engage… is not the question
Last Tuesday the church community group I facilitate talked about the difficulty of following Jesus. More specifically we looked at the tendency to measure our “success” as Christians with the standard metrics available to secular culture. To illustrate, some Christians see their isolation from pop culture as a sign of their commitment to Jesus while…
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responding to comments about racism
The sentiments (as I perceive them) behind the first three comments on my Our of Ur post are the very reason we have to continue to talk in our churches about racism and class divisions. While the commenters find such conversations to be unhelpful, tiresome, and counter-productive, I believe the opposite to be true. What…
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which is most important: the bible or jesus?
I’m one chapter shy of finishing the latest book by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, for an upcoming Leadership Journal review. These two Aussies are some of the most prolific writers and thinkers these days about all things missional. (See, for example, Hirsch’s recent article in LJ,…
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does ignoring racism = ignoring the gospel?
I first saw this Barry Deutsch cartoon over at the Mustard Seed Associates blog. [Click the cartoon for a larger version.] In the corresponding article, Tom Sine writes about the gulf between white privilege and the ethics of God’s coming Kingdom. Usually, we are not aware that we benefit from white privilege and white power.…
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urban exile: will compassion survive this season?
Leadership Journal published my monthly article in their newsletter this month which meant that only an excerpt appeared on the Out of Ur blog. Hopefully enough time has passed for me to legitimately post the article in its entirety here. Urban Exile: Will Compassion Survive This Season? This Christmas the failing economy will test our…
David W. Swanson 