This is the sermon I preached on Sunday morning, Sept 11, 2011, at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church. I gave a shorter version at Wicker Park Grace that evening. Click the audio icon at the end of this post to listen in. You can also right click here and “save link as” to download the mp3 …
Category: Hospitality
Hospitality is a spiritual practice involving receptivity, reverence, and generosity. It can change our lives and our communities.
Communion Means Loving Across Barriers
I wrote about communion in the Wicker Park Grace e-newsletter this week. It’s so important that I want to repeat it here. As a pastor, I have struggled with how to interpret communion and how to practice it in a community deeply committed to radical inclusion. In many times and places, communion has been interpreted …
Meditation to Relieve Anxiety
Recently I wrote up a meditation for someone who has been experiencing a lot of anxiety about her future. I thought it might be helpful for others, so I’m sharing it here! Here is the idea for a meditation practice you could try: 1. Close your eyes and begin to focus on your breathing. Push …
New Video Glimpse of Wicker Park Grace
Big thanks to Brandon Sichling for making this 4-minute video to give viewers a glimpse into the life of Wicker Park Grace!
Disarming the Clobber Passages, #2
Last week in the Wicker Park Grace Movie Group we watched the next 10 minutes of A Fish Out of Water, and talked about the Holiness Codes of Leviticus, and the Romans 1 text which talks about “natural” and “unnatural” sexuality. The Holiness Codes, of which Leviticus 18:22 is a part, gave guidelines to the …