One person I have come to know since living in NYC is an Egyptian-American businessman I met who had started coming to my concerts in…
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…
*Note: The names of Lithuanians who shared their stories with me have been changed in this blog to respect their confidentiality. Welcome home! I went…
Sent out in Jesus’ name, our hands are ready now to make the earth the place in which the kingdom comes. The angels cannot change…
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is, not surprisingly, holiday music. From sacred masterworks to secular carols on the radio, the holidays…
While reflecting on World AIDS day, the Advent season and Communion Sunday over the past few weeks, I remembered a college administrator’s awkward monologue, a…
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…
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…
