Tag: Books
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My Year With Books (And Burnout)
Back in August, a friend gave me a copy of Percival Everett’s recently published novel, James, in which the author retells Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the vantage point of the enslaved Jim. Early in the book, as James is beginning his unlikely attempt to reunite his family, he and Huck stumble onto a robbers’…
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My Year With Books
How long is a year? A few days ago our oldest son counted off the few remaining days until the beginning of a new year and that remaining time seemed both impossibly short and interminably long. We sat around the dinner table that same evening wondering about whether our boys might begin the semester online…
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Five Favorite Books from 2019
I’m not sure there’s such a thing as a bad year of reading, but if there is, this wasn’t it. I got to review some very interesting books: The 21 (see below), Passionate for Justice, and The Color of Life for The Englewood Review of Books and Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance which, along…
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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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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…
David W. Swanson 