Category: Politics
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How much to say in 2024? How loudly to say it?
How helpful is it to publicly oppose the MAGA-Trump movement in 2024? I’ve been wondering about this and am struggling to come up with an answer I feel much conviction about. It feels like a lot of people, for a variety of reasons, believe it is necessary to take a vocal stand against the former…
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Terror, Trauma, and Better Questions
Last week Ed Stetzer, director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, was interviewed by NPR about the white evangelical presence at the U.S. Capitol insurrection. It’s obvious that, for Stetzer, this is a catastrophic moment which requires serious reflection and blunt questions. He asks, “How did we get here? How were we so…
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The Priority of Prayer
Wendell Berry, Jaques Ellul, and a Christian response to technologies and tyranny.
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“America is literally unimaginable without plundered labour shackled to plundered land…”
Any fair consideration of the depth and width of enslavement tempts insanity. First conjure the crime – the generational destruction of human bodies – and all of its related offense – domestic terrorism, poll taxes, mass incarceration. But then try to imagine being an individual born among the remnants of that crime, among the wronged,…
David W. Swanson 