Taking it to the streets on Good Friday

By |2018-03-02T16:34:56-06:00April 4th, 2015|

Most Good Fridays, I go to my suburban church where I watch a service that is beautiful, moving, tear-jerking at times. It has been planned out for months, every note of music carefully scripted, every video [...]

Seeing (and loving) the invisible

By |2018-03-02T18:59:44-06:00October 12th, 2011|

If you don’t know the suburbs, they can look homogenous, a never ending landscape of tract houses and strip malls. But behind what was designed to be safe and middle class and predictable is an [...]

Making a difference

By |2018-03-02T19:00:24-06:00August 3rd, 2011|

My 17-year old daughter leans on the open newspaper on the kitchen counter. (Yes, as a former newspaper reporter, I can't quite give up daily delivery of the Chicago Tribune). I love that she reads [...]

The Simple Compassion Challenge

By |2018-03-02T19:02:06-06:00January 9th, 2010|

This month, we're asking readers to perform one act of Simple compassion each week, and to tell us about it. You can watch my YouTube video explaining the challenge here. Each week, you pray, asking [...]

Blog tour starts soon!

By |2018-03-02T19:02:16-06:00December 29th, 2009|

If you have a blog, I'd love to come "visit" it next week during our blog tour for Simple Compassion. To participate, just leave a comment here or get in touch via my website. Let [...]

What can I do?

By |2018-03-02T19:02:22-06:00December 10th, 2009|

It's 2 degrees here, with howling winds that drive the windchill well below zero. I am inconvenienced by such weather--car doors freeze shut, roads are a bit slick. But I slept in a warm bed. [...]

Punishing the victim

By |2009-10-13T13:25:06-05:00October 13th, 2009|

Interesting front page article in the Chicago Tribune today about a woman who was evicted after she called the police to report that her live-in boyfriend had threatened her with a gun. The woman was [...]

Breakfast at the shelter

By |2009-10-10T08:39:15-05:00October 10th, 2009|

"I was hungry and your gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in..." (Jesus, in Matthew 25:35) My neighbor [...]

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