Tag: Christianity
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Call the Evildoer to Account for His Wickedness
An alternative to Franklin Graham’s Special Day of Prayer.
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Young Leaders: Here Are 10 Ways to “Lead Up” for Reconciliation and Racial Justice
My most recent article for Missio Alliance has been posted. The concept of leading up within organizations is common. Leading up, when done well, benefits the entire congregation, as the insights and innovations of youth are brought into conversation with the foresight and wisdom of older generations of godly leadership. This dynamic is important when…
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Review of Whole and Reconciled
I recently reviewed Al Tizon’s new book, Whole and Reconciled for Missio Alliance. One of the defining and disappointing characteristics of western Christianity has been our instinct to bifurcate the church’s mission. Consider, for example, the countless ways we find to debate whether evangelism or justice should be our priority. Is it the church’s primary…
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“There is no good news in religion for those who have not turned or cannot turn. “
The first element of this [Christian] uniqueness is that the Christian faith glorifies as Son of God a man who was degraded and dehumanized by his fellow human beings as much as it is possible to be, by decree of both church and state, and that he died in a way designed to subject him…
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“I was in a holy place, a place for pilgrimage only a few miles from my home, and I had no idea that this church still existed.”
My friend Kevin Considine is a Catholic theologian whose work I always look forward to. I was especially interested in his most recent article because it engages with the theme of pilgrimage as an important, and thoroughly Christian, way of engaging the work for racial justice and reconciliation. He writes about an experience in the…
David W. Swanson 