Tag: Christianity
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How much to say in 2024? How loudly to say it?
How helpful is it to publicly oppose the MAGA-Trump movement in 2024? I’ve been wondering about this and am struggling to come up with an answer I feel much conviction about. It feels like a lot of people, for a variety of reasons, believe it is necessary to take a vocal stand against the former…
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Insurrection, Idolatry, and an Invitation to Risky Discipleship
In the days following the January 6 insurrection, a lot of us tried to make sense of the violence and chaos we watched unfold on live TV from the US Capitol. For as unpredictable as were the days following the election, the scenes of an enraged mob attacking police officers, chanting for the Vice President’s…
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Can white Jesus be saved?
First posted to my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week, in my little corner of the Internet, some people were wringing their hands about white Jesus. As statues and monuments to the Confederacy are being torn down, some people have begun to wonder whether it’s time to remove representations of Jesus which…
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The (un)importance of cross-racial friendships
First posted to my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week, during an interview about Rediscipling the White Church, the conversation drifted into the role of relationships in the work for racial justice and reconciliation. It’s a tricky topic. As Emerson and Smith write about in Divided by Faith, relationalism is one of…
David W. Swanson 