Tag: Christianity
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“What we believe on the inside can never be removed from what we do on the outside.”
Yesterday evening I attended a poster show hosted by Iraq Veterans Against the War. I went with a friend who is a veteran and who has worked with this group for a long time. The posters were well done but this particular one caught my eye. A portion at the bottom of the poster read: Joshua…
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Franklin Graham’s “crude, insensitive, and paternalistic” comments.
Frankly, Rev. Graham, your insistence that “Blacks, Whites, Latinos, and everybody else” “Listen up,” was crude, insensitive, and paternalistic. Your comments betrayed the confidence that your brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those of color, have afforded your father’s ministry for decades. Your instructions oversimplified a complex and critical problem facing the nation and minimized…
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What should married people know about the experience of singleness?
If you have an answer to this question please leave it on the blog. I’m away from social media during Lent so any comments left there will be sadly unread. Thanks! During Lent we are preaching through a series called Undivided in which we’re looking at some of the things that separate Christians. As an…
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A Sermon on MLK Weekend: The Injustices of Earth and the Resources of Heaven
Most of you know my oldest son and you know that, like his younger son, he is adopted. You may not know that my son can trace his ethnicity through Filipino people, Puerto Rican people, and, especially, African American people. My son is five years old. This means that in seven years he will be…
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Self-Care Isn’t Enough
In the small part of the world I inhabit it’s rare that a week goes by during which I don’t talk with someone about self-care. The church I serve has more than its fair share of teachers, social-workers, therapists, and grad students. These are people who are moved by their neighbors’ pain and have given much…
David W. Swanson 