Bearing Witness as Protest
Our testimony to Jesus is the foundation of our dissent
Placing Our Protest
Circumstances change but our dissent endures
Protesting People
Christians and our posture of dissent
Two Articles: Communities of Wisdom and Quitting ICE
It’s been another tough week in Chicago. Like many others, I’m experiencing a persistent sadness and anger about the federal government’s cruelty even as...
A City Under Siege
Updates from Chicago
Living Compasses
The guides we need for these deceitful days
Meaningless Meaning
Maturity in the aftermath of evil
Undermining the Violence of Polarization
Principles and practices for a politics of forgiveness
Ephemera, Etcetera
Well, August has been a gift. I’ve mostly stayed away from online news and social media; my sense of what’s happening in the world has come from little bits...
The Death of Self-Preservation
Being the church in and for the world
Strangers in the Land
Echoes from the early days of Chinese migration
Negative Resistance
Learning to walk away from all of it
Our Obligation and Offering
Responding to cruelty with creative solidarity
Guided Into Truth
A Juneteenth sermon about the Holy Spirit
Reconciliation and Undermining the Racial Binary
Refusing to conform to simplistic assumptions
Reconciliation and Truth
Generalities are not enough
Expediting Our Family's Demise
On baptismal waters compromised by nationalist fantasies
Resurrection and Re-creation
"For the sun turned back and the earth shook and the mountains were rent, and all were awed."
An Invitation to Silence
Good Friday and the limits of our humanity
Reconciliation and Place
The patient work of making a home