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 Things That Are Not: Forty Years After the American Jesus Movement of the Early 1970s, Any “New” Jesus Movement Will Not Come in the Same Way By Jon Trott What follows is not “prophecy” in any “thus saith the Lord” sense; it is only an expression of a heart burden I bear, and as such, may be safely [...]
(Above) Juan Rivera in 1993, 2003, and 2009 All below text from Center for Wrongful Convictions website. Juan Rivera freed after 19 years behind bars for a crime it had long been obvious he could not have committed. Center on Wrongful Convictions Client Juan Rivera walked out of Stateville Correctional Center on Friday, January 6, 2012, after Lake County State’s [...]
When I came to Chicago, I noticed that our call for compassion cannot be lived as an idealistic dream. One night, I gazed at all the sleeping homeless men and realized I was standing in the midst of a sea of orphans; a hundred guys without families, ostracized and seeking someone to listen to their endless stories. What I was [...]
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 [...]
To the friends and family of Cornerstone Festival, we want to make some timely special needs known. The below message from John Herrin, Fest Director, introduces things: While ticket and merchandise sales along with sponsorships represent a large portion of our annual operating budget we are still completely dependent upon you, the Cornerstone faithful, for financial support. Our need and [...]
(Above) Juan Rivera in 1993, 2003, and 2009 All below text from Center for Wrongful Convictions website. Juan Rivera freed after 19 years behind bars for a crime it had long been obvious he could not have committed. Center on Wrongful Convictions Client Juan Rivera walked out of Stateville Correctional Center on Friday, January 6, 2012, after Lake County State’s [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps an appropriate entry for Halloween season, Spooky Tooth’s 1969 LP “Ceremony” was one of the weirdest secular attempts to address the sacred. Actually, the LP didn’t begin as a Spooky Tooth project. Rather, one Pierre Henry hired the Tooth for his own album project, but (as legend has it) then announced the finished product as a Spooky Tooth album. [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps an appropriate entry for Halloween season, Spooky Tooth’s 1969 LP “Ceremony” was one of the weirdest secular attempts to address the sacred. Actually, the LP didn’t begin as a Spooky Tooth project. Rather, one Pierre Henry hired the Tooth for his own album project, but (as legend has it) then announced the finished product as a Spooky Tooth album. [...]
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 Things That Are Not: Forty Years After the American Jesus Movement of the Early 1970s, Any “New” Jesus Movement Will Not Come in the Same Way By Jon Trott What follows is not “prophecy” in any “thus saith the Lord” sense; it is only an expression of a heart burden I bear, and as such, may be safely [...]
(Above) Juan Rivera in 1993, 2003, and 2009 All below text from Center for Wrongful Convictions website. Juan Rivera freed after 19 years behind bars for a crime it had long been obvious he could not have committed. Center on Wrongful Convictions Client Juan Rivera walked out of Stateville Correctional Center on Friday, January 6, 2012, after Lake County State’s [...]
When I came to Chicago, I noticed that our call for compassion cannot be lived as an idealistic dream. One night, I gazed at all the sleeping homeless men and realized I was standing in the midst of a sea of orphans; a hundred guys without families, ostracized and seeking someone to listen to their endless stories. What I was [...]
Cease Fire Uptown, a group dedicated to building bridges with gang members and finding alternatives to gang activity, held a candlelight walk and vigil to three different areas where recent shootings in Uptown have occurred. This rough-cut video offers a thumbnail of what went on. If you would like to be involved, see either Organization of the Northeast or Cease [...]
A young woman reads the Scriptures… and the issue of our wealth vs the world’s poverty becomes terribly personal. Two thousand years are erased and we are confronted with a simple question. The beggar Lazarus… and the Rich Man… Which one are we?
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 [...]
Audio (low quality) of the author reading the below. The Unseen Love by Jon Trott Gonna tell the truth (at least the truth as I know it) A crumbling wall, a doorless frame I can’t fill it I fall to my knees in an agony of soul white hole Field of alkali and stones my love cannot sow it Can [...]
Let America Be America Again (written 1935) by Langston Hughes Audio version (Jon Trott narrator). Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let [...]
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