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@mwerickson so glad it’s out in the world!

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A good morning with the birds of Jackson Park, including kinglets, flickers, and this handsome blue-winged teal.

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A Plea to Pastors: “The vows you and I took when we said yes to this strange vocation include fidelity to Jesus Christ alone. Yet the people in your congregation are being tempted to place their hopes in a leader obsessed with his own greatness.”

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A Plea to Pastors: “The vows you and I took when we said yes to this strange vocation include fidelity to Jesus Christ alone. Yet the people in your congregation are being tempted to place their hopes in a leader obsessed with his own greatness.”

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A plea to pastors: “But some things are worth fighting about and faithfulness to Jesus and loyalty to his kingdom are some of those things.”

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@mwerickson this is wonderful. Clear and pastoral, precisely what we need from our pastors in these murky and deceptive days. Thanks for sharing!

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Ending the day with a “know your rights” webinar. I’m grateful for Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other local orgs who train Chicago residents to be good neighbors.

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Find trainings here.

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In today’s newsletter, with help from the “kneel-ins” at southern churches in the 1960s, I’m thinking about that anti-ICE church protest in St. Paul.

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I’ve been searching for words since waking up to news of my home country’s lethal attack against the country of my childhood. I think I found them.

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@KyleEssary it really isn’t. I’ve been grateful for a Venezuelan family in our church who have shared their experiences and perspective with me over the past few days.

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Can the illegal and immoral actions of our hypocritical president be an answer to persistent, fervent prayer? Countless Venezuelan Christians are prone to think so and the rest of us might consider taking their hard-earned perspective into account as we offer our own opinions.

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Guys, did you know it snows in Michigan?

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Five inches last night. A bunch more today. 55 mph winds. I guess we live in Michigan now.

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@ReaderJohn well, that’s enough for me! Adding it to my list.

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@ReaderJohn with all of your caveats (cheers to stopping books that aren’t pleasurable or profitable!), it’s a great list. I’ve been wondering about Small is Beautiful. How did you find it?

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@KyleEssary I’d not heard of this and it looks excellent. Thanks for sharing.

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@todd I’ve been hearing good things about it! Looking forward to your list.

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@ReaderJohn we’re at a mere 26 years. I’ve wondered about that one. Thanks for the recommendation!

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What book did you read this year that you’re most likely to recommend to the rest of us? Here’s what I read in 2025.

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On the second day of Christmas we braved a bit of freezing rain to enjoy the winter beauty of northern Michigan.

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Merry Christmas. Last night I preached from Isaiah 9:2-7, “Salvation in the Shadows.”

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@davoh thanks for this.

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@toddgrotenhuis all good. Sat that one out. Grateful for the breather, but hate that ICE is on to Charlotte. Thanks for asking!

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@todd all good. Sat that one out. Grateful for the breather, but hate that ICE is on to Charlotte. Thanks for asking!

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@mwerickson the perils of autumn in the Midwest! we once had a bee find its way into the communion chalice just before we invited the church forward to receive.

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@ReaderJohn while that’s certainly not been my personal experience, I think you’re right. I hope the article acknowledged that nuance.

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“Can you fulfill your responsibilities without violating Jesus’ teachings? If not, could it be that your loyalty to Jesus calls you to walk away?”

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Thank you to Christians for Social Action for publishing my appeal to ICE agents who share my faith.

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“I can’t be the only one who finds it disorienting having to so regularly justify justice.”

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Today’s newsletter is about the guides we need in these deceitful days.

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There’s been a lot of attempted meaning-making in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. In my newsletter today I suggest that emotional and spiritual maturity invites us to something different.

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@mwerickson I’m away from email this month, but please reach out in September. I’d love to share what I’ve learned. david.w.swanson@gmail.com

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@mwerickson can’t wait!

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@ReaderJohn Enjoy! It’s our tradition to spend a week in mid August up here, but last year I returned in mid September for a solo camping trip and really enjoyed the beginnings of fall and the quieter small towns.

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@drewbelf one of my favorite places. Just arrived with my family for a few days of relaxing and exploring.

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@dswanson sorry for the broken link. Here’s a good one.

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@KyleEssary oops! Here you go.

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”‘Our church,” wrote Bonhoeffer, ‘has been fighting during these years for its self-preservation, as if that were an end in itself.’ This, I think, is the source of my disinterest in yet another hand-wringing session about the future of Western Christianity.”

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• The Death of Self-Preservation

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So much activity in Jackson Park this morning, including this song sparrow tuning up, a yellow warbler surveying his territory, and a hungry goldfinch.

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Song sparrows, palm warblers, and Baltimore oriels were all well-represented during my walk through Jackson Park this morning.

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From today’s newsletter:\n>While our congregations will typically stay out of the political weeds, it’s our very identity as the embodied presence of Christ in the world which compels our prophetic witness when the intention and methods of our nation’s leaders damage our neighbors.

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Spent a few hours hanging out with my feathered friends yesterday, including these good-looking guys: black and white warbler, cooper’s hawk, blue-grey fly-catcher, and palm warbler.

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“In a battle waged against poor, vulnerable, and marginalized followers of Jesus, many American Christians have allied themselves with the forces of oppression and against the well-being of their siblings in Christ.”

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From today’s newsletter, Expediting Our Family’s Demise

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A few of my Jackson Park companions this morning: a muskrat too distracted by its lunch to notice me, a red-winged blackbird, a ruby-crowned kinglet, and a brown creeper with a snack in its beak.

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A brief Good Friday reflection, from the vantage point of our troubled days.

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Good Friday is to stand helplessly before imperial and religious power with no recourse. It is to recognize that the tragedies unfolding obviously before our eyes cannot be stopped by any well-argued point, any appeal to dignity or justice, any cry to heaven.

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@KyleEssary this is such a special season in the life of a church plant!

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So good to see the yellow-rumped warblers and white-throated sparrows for the first time this spring!

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@rpmik thanks!

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@ReaderJohn so fast.

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@mwerickson and @KyleEssary, I can only claim to understand about half of it, but that half has been equal parts intriguing and inspiring.

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@mwerickson I don’t suppose you’ve read Sonderreger’s Systematic Theology, Vol. 2? She finds her doctrine of the Trinity rooted in Leviticus and the sacrificial cultus.

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@mwerickson oh wow! That looks rich.

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