A Good Week in Kankakee
I live and work in Kankakee, Illinois, about 60 miles south of Chicago. It’s a small city of about 25,000 with a mini-metropolitan area (two other towns, Bradley and Bourbonnais, that seem analogous to suburbs). When my fiancée Bethany and I get married in May, we intend to live intentionally a poor neighborhood, engage in [...]
New Calvinism and Holy Hip Hop
I just finished listening to a 9Marks Audio installment where Mark Dever interview Christian hip hop artists shai linne and Voice. I’ve heard shai linne’s “Atonement Q&A” before; it’s something like a rap catechism that’s part of his album “The Atonement.” Shai and Voice are both theologically Reformed, [...]
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America is a historical and sociological study of white evangelical attitudes toward white-black relations. I found it fascinating. I should also try to read some reviews by trained sociologists who may be able to offer some insight [...]
From Monday through Saturday this week, I will be going to some of the famous civil rights movements sites with about 40 white and black Chicagoans from several different churches. We hope to learn about the history of the movement and also work on racial reconciliation. I hope to have some interesting experiences to write [...]
John Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down (1976) John Perkins, With Justice for All (1982) Dolphus Weary, I Ain’t Comin’ Back (1990, 1997)
On June 15, I’m heading down Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee with members of 9 different Chicagoland churches. Organized [...]
Yesterday, I took a bus tour through some different neighborhoods of Chicago: Austin and Garfield Park on the West Side, the Gold Coast closer to downtown, the Prairie Avenue area that boasted the homes of some of the richest Chicagoans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bridgeport (the home of the Daley dynasty), [...]
In 1994, a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old tried dropped a boy of just 5 to his death out of a 14th-floor window in a housing project. Prosecutors said it was because the younger boy had refused to steal candy for the older boys, although one of them now says it was purely an act of [...]
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Queen of the Sciences
Pastoral Ministry
Word, Sacraments, and Liturgy
Christ and Culture and Misc.
Gender, Family, Misc.
Poetry
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Next Question Please
For the Freeloaders
Leftover Topics (but still yummy)
Christian Publishers
Friend's Sites
- "Baseball and Faith" – Steve Cornell
- Alan Burrow (Pastor of The King's Congregation in Meridian, ID) – "Faith Working"
- Ben Howard Photography
- Blazing Hope Youth Family Ranch
- Dr. Sam Storms – "Enjoying God Ministries"
- Joe Lamay – Pastor of Sovereign Grace Fellowship (South Bay, CA) and fellow El Segundo Baseball Alum
- Joel Wilhelm – "A Living Text"
- Jonathan Griffiths (Pastor at Cornerstone Church in Nampa, ID) – "Reflective Musings"
- Michael Mulconery (Elder at Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Nampa, ID) – SGF Sunday School
- My Wife's Blog – "Beloved Stranger"
- P. Andrew Sandlin (Pastor of Church of the King in Santa Cruz, CA)
- Pastor Nick Smith's Blog – "Sylvan Manor"
- Scott Kistler – "Tempora Christiana"
- William Farley (Pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship in Spokane, WA) – "The Raven"

