Category: race

• Courageous Discipleship in an Idolatrous Nation

  A sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1 on the Martin Luther King Day weekend, following the miscarriage of justice for Laquan McDonald.

  David Swanson

  January 21, 2019

  church, Discipleship, race, Scripture, theology

  Christianity, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

• It is not light that is needed, but fire.

  Frederick Douglass on telling the truth about injustice instead of protecting privileged sensibilities.

  David Swanson

  July 4, 2018

  justice, race

  Christianity, Fourth of July, Frederick Douglass, Independence Day, Justice

• Audacious Faith

  A sermon about the requirement of active faith in the struggle for racial justice.

  David Swanson

  January 15, 2018

  church, justice, race, theology

  Christianity, martin luther king jr, race

• The Suffering Struggle

  

  White Christianity cannot be redeemed. It must be renounced, again.

  David Swanson

  December 28, 2017

  church, race, Scripture, theology

  Christianity, Donald Trump, race, Theology

• A new white burden?

  Does Ta-Nehisi Coates fetishize race? No, but Thomas Chatterton Williams thinks he does.

  David Swanson

  October 7, 2017

  news, race

  Christianity, race