Let me just start by saying that I know I’m not an issue. It’s the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church that seems…
It was almost exactly seven years ago that I moved into my very first apartment in the near-south side Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport. I was…
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others…
Labels, labels, labels….we love them! They give us a quick and easy way to categorize ourselves and others in this often chaotic, disorganized…
A profound thing happened today when I went to Hope for our Neighbors in Need’s weekly food pantry at Church of the Village. I made an…
Maybe I’m a protest/rally freak, and I don’t think that I’m alone. Wherever there are people practicing their democratic right to assemble and their revolutionary…
Rewind the clock back to 2005. I had just moved to a new college town. My family and those I grew up with would routinely…
My sister once told me this joke… Once there was a mama polar bear, a daddy polar bear, and a baby polar bear who were…
I met my wife in 1980. She and I worked for the same company in different offices; she in North Carolina and I in Westchester….
Dad: Are you having a good time? Me: Yeah, I’m okay. Dad: Would you rather be somewhere else? Me: I mean, I guess I would….
