Category: race
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Leaving the White Church for What?
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Last week I listened to a powerful episode of one of my favorite podcasts, Pass the Mic, hosted by Jemar Tisby and Tyler Burns. In it, Tisby describes his many years deep within some of white evangelicalism’s premier institutions. After…
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Manifest Destiny and Black Faith
I first shared the following post in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Not long ago I noticed how often over the past few years I’ve been returning to the biblical themes of wilderness and exile. There’s a lot to say about these themes and I hope to explore some of them in…
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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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Diplomacy Doesn’t Work
This was first published in my newsletter earlier this year. During our ministry staff devotions this week we ended up talking about what our Christian responsibility is to those in positions of power whose attitudes and beliefs about racial justice (among other areas) are damaging to people. These powerful individuals could be a parent, a…
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Acknowledgment is better than ignorance. Confession is even better.
This was first published in my newsletter earlier this year. I’m sure some of you saw the new research about Christians and racial justice released by Barna this week. Here are a few relevant sections: There is actually a significant increase in the percentage of practicing Christians who say race is “not at all” a…
David W. Swanson 