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What was your favorite book, film or album of 2009?
Today we’re driving home after a few superb days with family in Iowa. Typically we’d stay through the weekend but I’m preaching on Sunday (about the lives of two of my favorite New Testament people, Priscilla and Aquila) so it’s time to make the 6 hour drive back to Chicago. We’ve got about a month…
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i’m most thankful for…
…my two favorite people. I hope you have plenty of reasons for gratitude today.
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home
The blog has been pretty quiet these days. All of family Swanson’s energies have gone to our move from Logan Square down to Hyde Park. On Tuesday night we closed on our condo (to those who warned of ridiculous amounts of paperwork, you were correct) and then the packing and moving kicked into high gear. …
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your opinion please: a new look for the blog
Yesterday I got an out-of-the-blue email from Cameron Thomas, a Montreat College buddy. In it he suggested that this blog’s banner “needs some help.” I couldn’t agree more. The current banner is something I came up with very quickly with my very limited skills when this blog went live back in April, 2007. Over the…
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out of ur: gran torino
Here is this month’s Out of Ur column. Clint Eastwood taught me something the other day. The veteran actor and director’s latest film sheds light on the tendency by many of us to seek the cultural values of homogeneity, stability, and comfort rather than finding God in the midst of our confusing, painful, and volatile…
David W. Swanson 