Tag: Christianity
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Pursuing Justice Intentionally Now
I recently corresponded with a former church member who now lives on the west coast. This young woman is oriented toward justice in a few specific ways and she was wondering about how these commitments will play out in the coming years. I shared the following thoughts about how someone, especially a younger person, might purposefully engage…
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Dangerous Calling
My review of Dangerous Calling by Paul David Trip in the January print edition of Christianity Today has now been posted on their website. There is a disheartening rite of passage every young pastor faces. And though it was almost 10 years ago, I remember my own moment clearly. “Have you heard?” asked my senior pastor when…
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“…the charge which I make against the Anglo American pulpit today…”
Another discouraging circumstance is to be found in the fact that the pulpits of the land are silent on these great wrongs. The ministers fear to offend those to whom they minister. We hear a great deal from their pulpits about suppressing the liquor traffic, about gambling, about Sabbath desecration, and about the suffering Armenians,…
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“…we revered heterosexual nuclear families…”
The casualties of this lack of imagination have been those people who don’t fit well into a network comprised of heterosexual nuclear families. This includes those sexual minorities who choose not to commit to mixed-orientation marriages, but it also includes people who don’t marry or can’t marry, people who don’t have children or can’t have…
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Stunted Faith
As a pastor I regularly have conversations with folks who feel themselves teetering on the edge of faith. I don’t remember anyone telling me that this would be a normal part of my vocation but it has become common enough to be notable. Earlier this year I wrote about this and wondered about the negative…
David W. Swanson 