by Christian Coon | Feb 24, 2022 | BLOG, Daily living, Everyday life, Sin
Do not plan harm against your neighbor who lives trustingly beside you. (Proverbs 3:29, New Revised Standard Version) We live in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago in a little area called Dearborn Park II, about 3/4 mile west of the Field Museum. It’s a...
by Christian Coon | Apr 21, 2021 | Everyday life, Peace, Presence, Sharing
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. (John 14:27a, NRSV) Every spring for the last several years, I’ve participated in some sort of group clean-up of a river in the Chicago area. This year our church teamed up with a local group called Clean Up Give...
by Christian Coon | Aug 14, 2018 | Everyday life
I joked on Facebook a couple weeks ago that I knew it was Lollapalooza time because there was a trail of glitter from my daughter’s room to the front door. Teen-age girls (at least mine and her friends) spend time putting glitter on themselves...
by Christian Coon | Jul 17, 2018 | Everyday life, Hospitality, Jesus
You may notice something a bit different with this version of my sporadic email. There’s more! My plan is to put one out every other week with three features; a blog post, my latest Failing Boldly podcast episode and a little feature I’m calling Three Up...
