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…
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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…
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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…
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Labels, labels, labels….we love them! They give us a quick and easy way to categorize ourselves and others in this often chaotic, disorganized…
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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…
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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…
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As we slowly decompress from Pride Month and all of the fun activities that took place both within and outside of our church walls, I…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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