I’m not a restful person. In fact, I’m the opposite. I’m restless. I fidget. I zone out. I am easily bored. I like to have plans and projects and possibilities.   Even, especially, at night, I can’t stop. My brain doesn’t shut off. EVER. It’s like a machine in [...]

Salvation Army Captain Nancy Powers released the following open letter to those supporting the SA’s Uptown Truck Feeding Program. (For more information about that controversy, fueled when Uptown’s Alderman attempted to shut down that SA outreach to street homeless here, see “Of Pigeons and Homeless in Uptown.”)

There’s a man going through your dust bin Only this time he’s looking for food There’s a tear in his eye, you don’t know him Oh but you know what he’s going through Ain’t it funny that you can’t seem to help him Bein’ sick as he staggers away Is [...]

  Our friends at “New Life for Old Bags” are at it again, supporting Cornerstone Community Outreach (CCO — our homeless shelter) with one of the most brilliant “repurposing” projects we’ve even seen. They take old plastic shopping bags and weave them into beautiful — yes, really — floor mats. [...]

It might seem an odd moment to look back at the Iraq War, and at a speech given by Chris Hedges in 2004. Our President, inaugurated for the second time just yesterday, has drawn that war to a close. Further, he spoke in his Second Inaugural of reaching out in [...]

NRA Ad’s logic applied to adults: President Obama has Secret Service protection? Then ALL Americans should have such protection. (Pretzels, anyone?) The NRA has run this ad in the apparent hope that sufficient numbers of Americans are terminally stupid and will actually find this overlay of misinformation and illogic convincing. [...]

Dawn Mortimer’s foundational contributions to the heart vision of Jesus People USA cannot be over-estimated. She is currently too ill to have joined the other JPUSA pastors at our annual New Year’s Service, where traditionally each of them deliver a short message of encouragement for the coming year. Dawn, with [...]

In Glenn’s 2013 New Year’s addition to the collection of New Year’s Sunday, he addresses seeking first the Kingdom of God and offers three questions we might ask ourselves in light of that command from Scripture.