Category: theology
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faith on campus video contest
I’ve made the case before that, when done well and with conviction, interfaith dialogue can be very productive. Engaging in intentional conversation with those of different religious traditions doesn’t have to mean bland, vaguely spiritual-sounding conversations about things that any decent human being would agree with. At it’s best, the interfaith movement allows for a…
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multi-site church ad nauseum
My most recent post for Out of Ur went up yesterday. The audience on that blog tends to be those with an interest in or experience with church ministry. Frankly, I’m not sure most of the readers here at Signs of Life would find the content all that intriguing, but it’s certainly a blog I…
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immigration? no. torture? yes. christian? for sure.
This morning I finished the very excellent book by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang, Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in the Immigration Debate. I’ll post a more thorough review later, but the following paragraph in the second to last chapter caught my eye and is worth sharing here. Indeed, there does seem to…
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“i choose the city” by francis dubose
Tall Skinny Kiwi calls Francis DuBose, who passed away in June, an urban missioligist and notes that the seminary professor is responsible for the current use of the word “missional” by many within the church. I’m unfamiliar with DuBose’s many books, but this poem from Mystic on Main Street has me intrigued. I CHOOSE THE…
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what is circumcision today?
On Sunday I preach from Acts 15:1-35. One commentator calls this text the “watershed” passage for the entire book of Acts. The implications of the events and decisions in this text for the early church were absolutely massive. One of the critical questions asked in this text was whether Gentile Christians had to be circumcised…
David W. Swanson 