Recent items of interest

14^th potluck  Festival  09/09/09
2009 Festival of Potluck Foods Invitation

View 2009 Feast Slide Show
courtesy of Hey Neighbor Project
and Brian Morris Photography

13^th potluck Festival on the 13^th of September
2008 Festival of Potluck Foods Invitation

View 2008 Feast Slide Show
courtesy of the Hey Neighbor Project

Dialogues in Democracy
12th Festival of Potluck Foods
invitation to September 22, 2007
Eat...Drink...and...Be Literate


Program from September 22, 2007
12th Dialogues in Democracy
& 2007 Festival of Potluck Foods


Shouting Over the Din
By Bob Herbert
NY Times Op-Ed Columnist
November 6, 2006,
the Monday before Elections Day


Is gay sex immoral?
Asking the question, and asking those inevitable other questions about ethics and morality, might help surface real answers that conceivably will bring deeper religious commitment, thought, and action all more closely together as one. Talk about moral action! 
Wednesday Journal
May 23, 2007


Look past the halo: Saints had sinful starts
By Cathleen Falsani Religion Writer
Chicago Sun-Times
October 27, 2006


"The problem of American democracy
is (of course) democracy..."
What if We're to Blame?
Public Opinion and Muddled Policies
The Washington Post
By Robert J. Samuelson
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
 

Organizational Updates and
Seasonal Reflections

Click here for ways to use the holidays of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Year's to reach after good, beginning from the inside with critical reflection. A series of three essays, each celebrating the power of living pragmatically in the cultural tensions of contradiction and paradox...and ambiguity.


The Urge to Dominate, the Urge to Influence
Some affirmative connections between the separate and interdependent spheres of politics and religion. These comments were offered June 30, 2006 as one of many favorable responses to the June 28 'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address in Washington DC by Sen. Barack Obama.


Honoring and advancing the voices of elders. 
Click here for public testimony in preparation for the White House Conference on Aging, December 11-14, 2005


Disconnected, dispossessed,
disinherited, disempowered ?
Eulogy for Mark Glende of Oak Park who died in a horrible train accident on January 30, 2006

May Easter Be Your Glad Surprise
A Good Friday Sermon by Rickey Sain,
April 14, 2006

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Taste & See Photo Gallery