Tag: Christianity
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On living counter to this racist culture assisted by the saints, including one or two white ones.
First published in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. What do you imagine when you hear racial segregation? I think many of us imagine the Civil Rights Movement. Maybe we think about a time when housing segregation was legal. But more than an ugly reality of a bygone era, we know that de-facto…
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How brave will we be?
First posted in early June in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. It’s Saturday evening. It’s been a hell of a week. A hellish week. From within a pandemic, the country has exploded, sparked by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. Helicopters have hovered near our apartment most nights…
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Covering Our Nakedness With Lament
First posted in my newsletter which you can subscribe to here. In his little book about race, The Hidden Wound, Wendell Berry grapples with his history as a member of a southern land-owning family and how his racial whiteness impacts him in ways he’d previously been oblivious to. He’s willing himself to wake up. “What…
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Preaching grace and justice (at the same time) to whole people
I first wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week a few video clips from some amazing preachers made their way across my social media feeds. The first was from Rev. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign who, despite vehemently opposing this presidential administration, made it clear that…
David W. Swanson 