David Swanson, MDiv

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Author | Founding Pastor of New Community Covenant Church, Chicago — Founder and CEO of New Community Outreach

David is an author and the founding pastor of New Community Covenant Church who 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. David is a former Director of Church Planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is a graduate of Montreat College (BS, 1999), Wheaton College Graduate School (MA, 2003), and North Park Theological Seminary (MDiv, 2023).

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Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice

Two of the world's greatest crises, systemic racism and environmental destruction, share the same origin story. The two are rooted in economic forces...

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