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A Goodbye to Chicago
This is a goodbye letter to the city that has shaped and built me over the past three years, a place that I am so happy to call my second home. This is all about Chicago as I’ve experienced it these past three years.
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Sermon from 7/13: Isaiah and the Parable of the Sower
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty…
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Thoughts on Palm Sunday
This Sunday was Palm Sunday, and in liturgical church traditions, it’s one of the weirder ones. It’s heavy with emotion, full of the ups and downs of a nonsensical, wild faith.
We start outside the church building, singing an ancient hymn and waving branches around like our ancient stories tell us the people of Jerusalem did. The whole congregation stood out in a city park–this morning being the first warm morning in God knows how long, here in Chicago. The air was humid and smelled like rain, but the wind was hot to us and dusty. (more…)
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There are some things you pay more attention to
In which Maggie meets a man on a train, and wonders about wandering.
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Chicago Lakeshore Adventures
In which Maggie nerds out about her new bike, and the commute to and from CPE down the lakeshore trail.
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Cheap Groceries in Hyde Park, and how to get them…
In which Maggie shares the knowledge of grocery shopping in Hyde Park: how to do it, how to keep it cheap, and how to enjoy eating even still.
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An unseasonably warm Lake Michigan…
Some photographs from Lake Michigan during this bout of warm weather.
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Thoughts about education in pastoral care
Musings on the imagining of pastors, who they are, how they care, and what role the romantic rural models have for us seminarians
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20 things I did in 2012
Here’s a list of some of the crazy things I did, completed, or accomplished in 2012. A look-back at a jam-packed year!
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5 Positive Things (2)
This week’s positive things: happy people’s (and sad people’s) music, meeting a bunch of young clergy, and awesome community development organizations on the South Side.
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The Brand of ‘Feminism’ in Hunger Games
Thoughts on a statement my dad made about feminism in the Hunger Games
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Book Journal #3: Public Theology
Books read for the Public Theology course, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, and Rienhold Niebur…
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Book Journal #2: Hebrew Bible
In the second half of the Introduction to Hebrew Bible course, we looked at some books with a different timbre: archeology, sociology, and a very modern book documenting the history of a word–philology and theology wrapped up into one. Article: Carol Meyers “Life in Biblical Israel” in Family, Religion and Culture: Families Read more…
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“The Environmental Crisis is Heresy”, Father John Chryssavgis
A Lecture by Father John Chryssavgis, a deacon in the Orthodox church, and the theological adviser to the Patriarch on environmental issues.
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Anywhere near the great lakes, the sky is exceptional.
I am now a resident of Chicago!! There are so many things that come along with this new city that I hardly know where to start. Let me just make a list for you of all the things that have completely taken me aback over the past week. 1. I Read more…