David Swanson

David W. Swanson is the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church and lives with his family on the South Side of Chicago. He is the founder and CEO of New Community Outreach, a non-profit organization dedicated to healing community trauma through restorative practices. David is the author of Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity and Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice. Connect with David at his website.

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David Swanson

Faithful Mission Through The Chaos (Part 2)

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David Swanson

Faithful Mission Through The Chaos (Part 1)

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Mandy Smith

What Art Does: An Artmaker’s Wisdom on Life and Leadership

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Phillip Lewis

Our Deep Desire is to be Witnessed

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Andrew Arndt

The Speed of Love

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Mayra Ramos

Reflections from the Boundary Zone

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Kyuboem Lee

What Will Keep Us from Building a Church in the Ruins?

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Samantha Rauh

The Special Needs of Special Needs Ministries

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Donnell Wyche

Rejecting the Lie that Life Has to Be This Way

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Preston Ulmer

Eight Better Ways to Talk about Religion

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David Fitch

The Different Kind of Leaders Needed for the Future of the Church

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Mandy Smith

Understanding the Whole Good News of the Gospel

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Donnell Wyche

Being Political as God is Political (Part 2)

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Seth Richardson

After the Sigh: What Comes Next For Christian Political Witness?

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Rose Lee-Norman

Jon Houghton

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Part 2

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Kris Beckert

The Limits of Experience

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Karina Kreminski

Five Reasons Why Neighborhoods Matter

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Seth Richardson

Relevancy Isn’t Our Only Option

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Mandy Smith

When to Loosen Our Tongues: How Testimonies Spark Revival

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David Fitch

3 Ways We Must Reimagine Our Ecclesiology in a Post-Willow Creek World

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Juliet Liu

The Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2017

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Josiah Marineau

The Christian University in Trump’s America

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Geoff Holsclaw

Man to Man: 5 Reasons I’m Going to SheLeads

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Ruthie Johnson

Allyship: Three Jesus-Inspired Ways to Respond to the Election

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Karina Kreminski

Four Practices that Turn ‘Loving Your Neighborhood’ Into a Spiritual Discipline

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Mandy Smith

The Extra Step in the American Gospel: Becoming Bearers of Bad News Before We Can Proclaim the Good

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Tara Beth Leach

Let Love Be Our Banner, Not Fear

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Kyuboem Lee

Christian Witness in a Time of Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

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Tara Beth Leach

A Call For Joy (Even in the Dark Spaces of Our World)