The Call towards Peace
An article on the Call towards Peace by Congress Director, Mark Hannan. Originally published in February, 2011 issue of the Concord: the literary journal of Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN.
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Speak Life Spoken Word
Speak Life is hosting an evening of poetry and prayer to lift up the epidemic of violence in our city. Tuesday 9/21 at 5:30pm at the corner of Flournoy & Homan in Chicago, IL. -
Oscar Grant: Murder as Accident
In the wake of the July 2010 verdict, in the trial of BART transit officer Johannes Merserle, there remains little justice for Oscar Grant and even less constructive dialogue and discernment around the issues of race, justice, and police power. -
Who Decides when Enough is Enough?
With the recent shooting of Michael Bailey, a well-loved police officer who was due to retire in a few weeks, many Chicago-ans are being reawakened to the epidemic of violence. -
McDonald vs. Chicago – Supreme Court Decision pt. 1
The Chicago pseudo-newspaper/tabloid RedEye released graphics mapping Chicago’s 2010 homicides in today’s issue. The statistics are disheartening enough when put in terms of numbers, 217 homicides in 6 months, but when you see it on a map it’s downright overwhelming. You can visit RedEye’s interactive homicide map and even though... -
National Guard in Chicago?
The recent plea for Governor Quinn to "call in" the National Guard to quell the violence on the streets of Chicago reveals the sustained inability and unwillingness of our society to engage the epidemic of urban violence on anything but a surface level. -
Insurrection
Peter Rollins' Insurrection pub tour evening here in Chicago was a brilliantly fashioned communal parable that allowed the mystery of the divine and the resurrection to breathe upon those gathered in the upper room of Trace pub. -
The Role of Utopia in Vision
Haiti is a reminder that we desperately need a worldwide response of restorative justice that began to make amends for the centuries of colonialism, racism, and slavery that has stolen and debilitated entire nations of people.