It is Christmas. Jude and I are not eating with family and friends, because it is a little too noisy and a little too bright. Someone is saving me a plate, they always do, because I spend many holiday meals with Jude. I don’t mind that much. Jude wanted to [...]

On October 27, from 12 noon to 5 pm, there is going to be one whale of a sale at Jesus People USA’s 920 W. Wilson Avenue address, a.k.a., the Chelsea House. Various wonderfully talented handcrafters of everything from jewelry to exotic oils to clothing to purses to… well, you [...]

We didn’t know what was happening, but our building’s entire front entrance spent hours blocked off as police (some armored and many armed more heavily than normal) confronted a man barricaded into his apartment in a building near us. Thank you for praying over the situation if you saw our [...]

  [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, [...]

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.

Fans of Helen Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis will be thrilled to now be able to pore over her letters and sonnets, among other items, now available for public viewing at the Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois. The sonnets are stunning due to the insight they give into her anguishingly human [...]

  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 [...]

Loyola D-lineman doing “Good” things Chicago Sun-Times Updated: October 21, 2011 7:51AM Life is good for Darby Goodwin. He’s a rising star on one of the state’s top football teams, one heading into its biggest game of the season this weekend. But the Loyola junior doesn’t take his blessings for [...]

At the end of “Breaker Morant” (a movie about a British soldier who “takes the fall” for the English military during South Africa’s Boer War) the subject is sitting tied to a chair as the sun rises- about to be executed by his fellow soldiers. His language is coarse to [...]

We set him up! He’s 85 years old, he’s homeless, he’s tiny, he’s fragile and he doesn’t speak English; this made him easy to set up. I walked up to the table where Humberto was playing dominoes with Elihud and Richard, and simply said; “it’s time!” Richard faked he’d had [...]