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Fatherhood Interview
Despite how little I know about the subject, Michael was kind enough to post my answers to his questions about fatherhood on his blog.
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Church Planting Lessons: Being Church
This is the fourth in a series of posts about what I’ve learned about multi-ethnic church planting as New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville enters its second year. You may be interested in parts one , two, and three. I’ve added a photo or painting from Bronzeville in each of these posts. Why start a…
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Agnus Dei
He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth. -Isaiah 53:7-8; Acts 8:32-33
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Weekend Reading
An article in The Root about the multiple costs of prioritizing incarceration over education. As federal, state and local governments across the nation slash their budgets to close looming shortfalls, there is one clear winner in the budget battles: correctional systems, which cost the nation nearly $70 billion annually. During the last two decades, funding…
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Weekend Reading
After reading Paul Salopek’s review of In Motion: The Experience of Travel by Tony Hiss, I promptly added the book to my wishlist. The most lyrical passages in In Motion describe how the 2003 blackout in New York jarred an entire bustling metropolis — the apex of sedentary life — into a state of Deep…
David W. Swanson 