by Christian Coon | Dec 12, 2019
by Christian Coon | Nov 29, 2019 | BLOG, Daily living, Goodness
As some of you know, in addition to my work at Urban Village Church, I’m currently pastoring River Forest United Methodist Church as we explore the potential of a partnership between the two congregations. A Montessori school uses River Forest’s building...
by Christian Coon | Nov 22, 2019
My guest this week is Tod Bolsinger, author of the book, “Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Unchartered Territory.” “Canoeing” has done the rare thing of becoming a popular book in both conservative and progressive church circles. By...
by Christian Coon | Nov 15, 2019 | BLOG
I wrote about sainthood in my last post and perhaps one reason I did was because sainthood has already been bestowed upon me. And I didn’t even have to die. And it was given by one of the great powers of society: The public library. Technological glitches can...
by Christian Coon | Oct 31, 2019 | Death, Hospitality, Saints
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us…(Hebrews 12:1, NRSV) I’ve written before about my...
by Christian Coon | Oct 15, 2019 | Failure
I was reading an article the other day that mentioned the phrase “blue-ribbon committee.” I can’t recall the subject of the article, but I would imagine that it included a Really Big Issue and Very Smart And Important People were needed to address...
by Christian Coon | Oct 12, 2019
by Christian Coon | Sep 27, 2019 | BLOG, Death
I was listening to the radio in my car a couple weeks ago when I heard about Ric Ocasek’s death. I was never a huge fan of The Cars, but when I’m in a 80s-music kind of mood, one of The Cars’ songs may pop up and so I know their hits pretty well....
by Christian Coon | Sep 14, 2019 | BLOG, Conflict, Love
We made our annual one-day visit to the Iowa State Fair last month and there are some things that will never change. I will always eat approximately 20,000 calories. I will always be in awe of the Super Bull, which weighed in at 2,710 pounds this year. And no matter...
by Christian Coon | Sep 13, 2019
My guest this week is Amy Dickinson, perhaps best known as the writer of the popular advice column “Ask Amy,” which is carried in over 150 newspapers and read by an estimated 22 million readers daily. In addition to her work as a writer, you may have also heard Amy on...
