This is how you lock a bike. This is taken at the Working Bikes Cooperative, where I was yesterday buying a used bicycle. My bike was stolen about six weeks ago. It was my second bike taken at the hands of bike thieves since moving into the city and they were both...

Sunday preview: No more hiding from Halloween

The first doorbell rang at about 4:30. I was down in our basement (which is where my office is) and my first instinct was not to walk up to start handing out candy, but, instead, to see if perhaps there was a trapdoor I was unfamiliar with that would lead to a hiding...

Keeping ourselves amused on the blue line on our way to...

The power of branding…(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Some of us have that empty-barrel faith. Walking around expecting things to run out. Expecting that there isn’t enough air, enough water. Expecting that someone is going to do you wrong. The God I serve told me to expect the best, that there is enough for everybody.

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Under Construction

It would be a challenge for me to come up with the Top 3 Reasons Why I Love Living in Chicago, only because there are so many to choose from. Coming up with the Top 3 Reasons Why Living in Chicago Can Be a Pain is a lot easier. Number 1 is driving in the city. Number...

The answer’s not in the classifieds

From the book, “Woman Overboard,” by Jo Kadlecek (excerpted in “When You Pray” by Rueben Job): “I’ve never understood how to walk beside the ogres and monsters of this career-driven culture, so rife with fire-breathing options and...

Leaving the camera at home

A couple Sundays ago, I preached on gun violence and focused on God’s question of Cain before he committed the infamous act of killing his brother. God asks, “Why are you angry?” Amidst many of the articles written about gun violence in Chicago,...

Individualism and global warming

Just started preparing for this Sunday’s sermon for our “Jesus for President” series and we’re focusing on global warming. Going beyond the debate and statistics are these powerful words on individualism by the environmental and Christian...

Bishop Sally Dyck’s @umcnic installation. (Taken with...