by David Swartz | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
My research on the anti-trafficking movement in Thailand primarily tracked U.S. Christian networks. As I suspected, the many missionaries and humanitarians I interviewed represented remarkable diversity. Some, horrified by sex trafficking, emoted like the passionate...
by David Swartz | Oct 14, 2016 | Opinion
Christians, who are people of the Book, follow political scripts as well as biblical scripts. The Right preaches small government and identifies with the Republican Party. The Left preaches an interventionist government and identifies with the Democratic Party. There...
by David Swartz | Nov 19, 2015 | Opinion
Was missionary work liberating for women? It depended. “Multiple freedoms and multiple opportunities reinforced each other,” writes historian Jane Smith in “The Gospel of Gentility,” “and [female missionaries] described themselves as...
by David Swartz | Sep 1, 2015 | Opinion
Charles Spurgeon, a Reformed Baptist known as the “prince of preachers” in the 19th century, remains revered. Known especially for his devotional writings, he currently ranks in the top 100 best-sellers of Christian literature on Amazon.com. Tom Nettles, a...
by David Swartz | Aug 21, 2015 | Opinion
In 1345, on a cold Tuesday night just before Easter, a miracle happened in Amsterdam. A dying man, given the Eucharist, vomited it right back out. His caregivers were amazed to see that it had re-emerged from his mouth whole. They threw the host on a fire, perhaps...
