Category: news
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chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods
On Monday a friend emailed me an article with the subject, “Bronzeville Dubbed 2nd Most Dangerous Neighborhood.” A few minutes later a similarly ominous article was waiting in my Google News headlines. Given the increasing amount of time I’ve spent in Bronzeville working on the New Community church plant, both of these articles were hard…
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gay marriage, bad. lingerie modeling, good.
I don’t keep up with beauty pageant news (Does anyone still watch these pageants?) so I’m late in coming to the story of Miss California’s comments about gay marriage. At the Miss USA competition in late April Carrie Prejean was asked whether she believed in gay marriage. Though she didn’t win the competition, her answer…
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why “left behind” complicates my life
One of the interesting things about being a Christian in America is the incongruity between public perception of the faith and my own understanding of Christianity. The varieties of Christianity most often displayed in the media and public square often seem light years away from personal convictions and experiences. Can anyone relate to this? On…
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should there be a black history month?
We’re halfway into Black History Month and some are wondering how helpful this designation is. Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution doesn’t mince words, It’s not merely that a short month set aside to commemorate black achievement is a curious and old-fashioned appendage, like rabbit ears on a TV or a rotary dial on…
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has obama’s election fulfilled dr king’s dream?
Last week I mentioned that one of the questions the media seemed particularly interested in during the presidential inauguration was whether Dr Martin Luther King’s dream had been realized in Barack Obama’s presidency. The assumption, as I understand it, is that since an African American man has been elected to the nation’s highest office we…
David W. Swanson 