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“…dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus…”
The task of prophetic theology today includes dismantling whiteness and following the Jewish Jesus who is leading an intercultural movement of love and justice. While the colonial imagination viewed white Europeans as God’s elect in the New World, the Scriptures repudiate this hierarchical racial logic and ground Christian identity in the election of the Jews. Israel, understood as the…
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Three Years
On Sunday our church celebrated our third anniversary. There’s a lot that could and probably should be said about this significant marker but, to be honest, I’ve run out of words. God has been good. That’s more than enough to capture the spirit of our celebration, but these photos may fill in some details. To…
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“…we revered heterosexual nuclear families…”
The casualties of this lack of imagination have been those people who don’t fit well into a network comprised of heterosexual nuclear families. This includes those sexual minorities who choose not to commit to mixed-orientation marriages, but it also includes people who don’t marry or can’t marry, people who don’t have children or can’t have…
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Published Elsewhere
Two pieces that were published elsewhere: a review of What’s the Matter With White People? by Joan Walsh for The Englewood Review of Books and a short essay for Leadership Journal about the “essence” of being a pastor. I continue to be thankful for publications like Englewood and Leadership for these opportunities to write.
David W. Swanson 