We will be posting various memories and reflections from folks both within JPUSA and friends who’ve come faithfully to Cornerstone Festival for years. Glenn Kaiser, pastor at JPUSA and musician from the days of Resurrection Band into the present, offered the below post on his GlennKaiser.com blog. FINALE After a very recent JPUSA community-wide gathering to announce the final Cstone [...]
[The original text and page for the below can be found on Cornerstone Festival's website. We hope you'll come be with us in this celebration of all Cornerstone has been as part of God's Grace in all of our lives.] A Special Announcement From Cornerstone Festival We are so grateful to have been able to share with you the gift [...]
[This article, with a photo gallery at article's end, is part II of a Planned III part series; Part I deals with Chelsea Hotel's construction in the 1920s and what happened next.] Through the 1930s into the first two-thirds of the 1960s Chelsea Hotel, despite its small studio apartments, was not just home to single adults but entire families. [...]
Quick Action Alert! The state of Illinois is planning to slash the budget of Cornerstone Community Outreach Shelters… along with all other shelters in Illinois. Please, if you are a friend of CCO… SIGN THIS PETITION to call on the Illinois Governor, Senate, and House to *NOT* cut funding and beds from our programs for the homeless! (From the above [...]
It was another hot day and I had just pulled in the alley to park the car by the shelter. A young man stood on the sidewalk patiently waiting to get my attention. I didn’t recognize him but assumed he was one of the newer men in the program. Without getting out I rolled the car window down and he [...]
We will be posting various memories and reflections from folks both within JPUSA and friends who’ve come faithfully to Cornerstone Festival for years. Glenn Kaiser, pastor at JPUSA and musician from the days of Resurrection Band into the present, offered the below post on his GlennKaiser.com blog. FINALE After a very recent JPUSA community-wide gathering to announce the final Cstone [...]
We will be posting various memories and reflections from folks both within JPUSA and friends who’ve come faithfully to Cornerstone Festival for years. Glenn Kaiser, pastor at JPUSA and musician from the days of Resurrection Band into the present, offered the below post on his GlennKaiser.com blog. FINALE After a very recent JPUSA community-wide gathering to announce the final Cstone [...]
We of Jesus People USA are members of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), a dynamic and open part of the Body of Christ providing to us a sense of homecoming. The below video is the fourth in a series the ECC just completed on their six “Covenant Affirmations.” Neither we nor the Covenant Church claim any “specialness” to these affirmations; [...]
Threads of despair and fantasy are woven together in a poetic work C. S. Lewis, best known for his post-conversion Christian writings, penned as a young man just back from World War I. In 1919, Spirits in Bondage was published under the pseudonym “Clive Hamilton.” It might be a stretch to say that this collection is edifying (at least in the [...]
The wonderfully eclectic blog, One Pilgrim’s Progress, carries a lengthy article about the writer’s visit to JPUSA and encounter with a concert the Kyrgyzstani Group gave us JPUSAns and friends. The post is complete with a number of video clips from the concert, and a whole lot of fun.
I have lived in Uptown since the mid eighties. It is different now. Back then it was a bonified ghetto, with burnt out buildings, drunks to step over on the sidewalk and children of drug addicts playing on the streets in rags. Over the years it has changed. Like much of the North side of Chicago it has been [...]
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (newjimcrow.com), discusses blackness and America’s legal and prison systems. A must-see for any Christian…. and any American. Thanks to CovChurch (Jesus People USA’s parent denomination’s website) and Stan Friedman for creating this great interview with Michelle.
We will be posting various memories and reflections from folks both within JPUSA and friends who’ve come faithfully to Cornerstone Festival for years. Glenn Kaiser, pastor at JPUSA and musician from the days of Resurrection Band into the present, offered the below post on his GlennKaiser.com blog. FINALE After a very recent JPUSA community-wide gathering to announce the final Cstone [...]
[The original text and page for the below can be found on Cornerstone Festival's website. We hope you'll come be with us in this celebration of all Cornerstone has been as part of God's Grace in all of our lives.] A Special Announcement From Cornerstone Festival We are so grateful to have been able to share with you the gift [...]
[This article, with a photo gallery at article's end, is part II of a Planned III part series; Part I deals with Chelsea Hotel's construction in the 1920s and what happened next.] Through the 1930s into the first two-thirds of the 1960s Chelsea Hotel, despite its small studio apartments, was not just home to single adults but entire families. [...]
Quick Action Alert! The state of Illinois is planning to slash the budget of Cornerstone Community Outreach Shelters… along with all other shelters in Illinois. Please, if you are a friend of CCO… SIGN THIS PETITION to call on the Illinois Governor, Senate, and House to *NOT* cut funding and beds from our programs for the homeless! (From the above [...]
It was another hot day and I had just pulled in the alley to park the car by the shelter. A young man stood on the sidewalk patiently waiting to get my attention. I didn’t recognize him but assumed he was one of the newer men in the program. Without getting out I rolled the car window down and he [...]
We of Jesus People USA are members of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), a dynamic and open part of the Body of Christ providing to us a sense of homecoming. The below video is the fourth in a series the ECC just completed on their six “Covenant Affirmations.” Neither we nor the Covenant Church claim any “specialness” to these affirmations; [...]
The wonderfully eclectic blog, One Pilgrim’s Progress, carries a lengthy article about the writer’s visit to JPUSA and encounter with a concert the Kyrgyzstani Group gave us JPUSAns and friends. The post is complete with a number of video clips from the concert, and a whole lot of fun.
Thrice’s haunting sound has varied widely over the years, but one thing they’ve excelled at is writing songs laced with faithful poetry yet avoiding trite phraseology or musical vapitude. “Come All You Weary” is one of the more moving songs of invitation I’ve heard.
This year’s Cornerstone Fest line up awaits you! Sort out what bands and musicians play when, and sort out your own schedule so you don’t miss your faves!
That’s right. Brontosaurus bugle blasts. We’re talking monster reptiles ripping a few… wait, make that a lot. As in 520 million tons of gas every year! David Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moore’s University, and colleagues from the University of London and the University of Glasgow, published their results in the journal Current Biology. The scientists theorize that as these Mesozoic [...]
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