Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger
A couple nights ago Roger and me from SCUPE went with our Swiss friends to Columbia College for their screening of the new documentary (10 years in the making) about Chicago’s Father Michael Pfleger....
View ArticleInsurrection
Peter Rollins Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be one of about a hundred people crammed into the upper room (how biblical) of Trace pub here in Chicago for an evening of poetry, song, dj-ism,...
View ArticleRestoring Urban Communities
Mary Nelson teaching at Lake & Pulaski Last weekend I spent some time in the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago with Dr. Mary Nelson’s “Restoring Urban Communities” class. If you haven’t...
View ArticleUnfortunately, Violence is not just a Chicago Problem
Chicago And Minneapolis skylines I have really come to love Chicago, that endlessly bustling city next to an endlessly stretching lake, but I do have to admit more than the occasional pang of longing...
View ArticleThe Art of Peace
Speaking of Faith has a recent podcast up on their website under the title: The Art of Peace. John Paul Lederach describes what really happens when people transcend violence while living in it, and so...
View ArticleSo You Want to Go to Seminary?
So You Want To Go To Seminary? Hilarious animated video from xtranormal. We recommend you watch this as you discern your call… “Seminary will teach you what a lot of dead white men thought about God.”
View ArticleThe Wild Goose Festival
What do wildness, geese, and the Holy Spirit have in common? How about social justice, spirituality, art, music, and camping? In a little over a month, the US version of the longstanding Greenbelt...
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