As a self-identified tree hugger, one of my favorite hymns is How Great Thou Art!: O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,…
The Washington Square Church… the name still stirs in me a feeling of liberation, hope, radicalism and passion. Though I was never a member, several…
I have been thinking a lot about ritual these days. It is a word that I have not thought about as much as related words like…
Happy Holidays! Everywhere you go this season, even in New York, the city which might be too cool (or perhaps, too cold) for Christmas, there…
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…
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…
On Saturday I met my good friend, Chris, and his fiancée Cristi, who were visiting New York. The three of us went to college together…
“Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks…
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. -Proverbs 16:4 Tonight I was reminded that it…
