Category: news
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Accepting the Unacceptable
I first published this in my weekly newsletter. You can subscribe here. Earlier this week I joined a conference call for the purpose of holding vigil and praying for a man who was lying, near death, in an ICU in the Chicago suburbs. Each of us on the call had gotten to know this man…
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“…life-transforming, Satan-crushing, God-glorifying…”
Could it be that in the West the presence of the demonic is muted not because demons have ceased to exist or never were, but for the precise reason that no one fights against nothing? Perhaps, as long as lukewarm faith exists, perhaps the demonic need not be troubled nor trouble themselves. While the purpose…
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The Priority of Prayer
Wendell Berry, Jaques Ellul, and a Christian response to technologies and tyranny.
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“They’re so easy to kill, birds…”
This, from Elizabeth Bruenning in the Washington Post about the Trump administration’s decision not to enforce the Migratory Bird Treaties Act, is so beautifully said and so profoundly sad. They’re so easy to kill, birds; or rather, the power of human industry is so profound that only a little carelessness — the slightest abdication of…
David W. Swanson 