Category: news
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Actually, Segregation Matters
Rod Dreher is a conservative whose writing I often find insightful. However, his recent criticism of a New York Times article about Chicago gun violence is an adventure in missing the point. The New York Times reports today that the over 500 killings in Chicago last year were primarily gang members killing other gang members. The Times frames the…
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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…
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Endurance in Christmastime
Advent, the weeks leading to Christmas, is a time of anticipation- remembering the Israelites awaiting the Messiah and acknowledging our own waiting for his return. It’s a season with enough heft and depth to evoke and hold our grief. We remember the Israelits waiting and waiting for their deliverance. We remember the massacre of the innocents when word reached Herod…
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A Phone Call on Behalf of Our Poor & Hungry Neighbors
The news this morning is all about the storm wreaking havoc on the East Coast. It was good to get a text from my parents in New Jersey this morning letting us know they’re doing well, but I know others are in still in the thick of it. Our thoughts and prayers are with those…
David W. Swanson 