Category: theology
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Will there be racists in heaven?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. A few weeks ago a friend retweeted a well-known bishop who is vocal in his opposition to racism who had declared something along the lines of: I’d rather not go to heaven if I’ve got to be there with white evangelicals. To…
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Trying to Remember
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Yesterday morning I walked three quarters of a mile from my in-law’s home in Brownsville, TN to this roadside marker beside a small family cemetery. James Bond, a quick internet search will reveal, was once one of Tennessee’s largest slaveholders. By the…
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Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
I’ve started a personal newsletter which, so far, I’ve been posting weekly. I’ve not yet figured out its connection to this blog, but something I wrote for it seems to fit here. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. I’m reading Andrew Delbanco’s fascinating The War Before The War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for…
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“…life-transforming, Satan-crushing, God-glorifying…”
Could it be that in the West the presence of the demonic is muted not because demons have ceased to exist or never were, but for the precise reason that no one fights against nothing? Perhaps, as long as lukewarm faith exists, perhaps the demonic need not be troubled nor trouble themselves. While the purpose…
David W. Swanson 