Category: theology
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Violence
I’ve been thinking about violence recently and mean to consider it here from a few different angles. Here’s the first: Last week I sat at a table at our public radio station’s South Side bureau with a diverse collection of people from around the city. Our conversation topics – expertly led by one of my…
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Hazardous Discipleship
Ed Cyzewski and Derek Cooper have written a very helpful book about discipleship. Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus could almost be considered an introduction to discipleship, though the authors push beyond the introductory to describe a way of living that is as compelling as it is risky. Ed was kind enough to answer…
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Life: A Series of Transitions
I’m preparing a series of talks for an upcoming retreat on the topic of life transitions. I’ve been mulling this word – transitions – over in my head for the past month or so and two observations have consistently come to mind. First, I don’t like transitions. In many ways the past three years of…
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The Good, Racist People
I’ve taken a break from a lot of my normal online haunts during Lent and have surely missed a bunch of interesting articles and bits of news, though I’ve not generally been aware of missing anything. Thankfully a friend emailed me Ta-Neshi Coates’ op-ed in The New York Times; I wouldn’t have wanted to miss “The Good,…
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Stunted Faith
As a pastor I regularly have conversations with folks who feel themselves teetering on the edge of faith. I don’t remember anyone telling me that this would be a normal part of my vocation but it has become common enough to be notable. Earlier this year I wrote about this and wondered about the negative…
David W. Swanson 