David Swanson 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 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. He is a board member of A Rocha USA, a coach for the Wheaton College Preaching Institute, and a former Director of Church Planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church.
