Safstrom, Mark

Mark Safstrom of Seattle, Washington, is a graduate student in the Swedish Department of the University of Washington.

"America is No Paradise" -- Paul Peter Waldenström and Social Justice, Summer 2006

As the term “social justice” is gaining more usage in America, not least in the Covenant Church, it might be useful to discuss how well this concept fits the Covenant profile. Is it a buzz word that well-meaning Covenanters have picked up from mainstream culture and transplanted into the Covenant Church? Or is this new term, and the goals associated with it, in line with the unique Pietist history of the Covenant?

Pietism and Social Justice: The Legacy of Johann Arndt’s True Christianity, Christmas 2007

In a previous article in Pietisten, I suggested that P.P. Waldenström’s commentary on North American society reflected some traditional Lutheran Pietist concerns for social justice. Prompted by a friend at Seattle First Covenant, this was expanded into a Sunday school series that traced the Covenant Church’s history of social ministries through its Pietist roots. This article is a summary of part one of that class.