Our Adoption Story (Part 1)
If you’ve seen a 30-something white couple at Church of the Resurrection with two toddlers who aren’t even remotely the same shade of brown, and you then learned that we
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Welcoming the Strangers
Over the past decade or so my wife Margaret and I have had two opportunities to follow the biblical mandate to “welcome the stranger” into our home. First, a little
Human Trafficking: Exploitation Ends in Our Backyard
Commercial sexual exploitation is both a local and a global tragedy today. Drive down North Avenue, Roosevelt Road, or to O’Hare, and you’ll likely pass a sign for “girls, girls,
Human Trafficking: She could be your daughter
Seven years ago, God was knitting together our first child in our womb. Feeling we’d have a girl, Matt and I named the growing baby “Lucy.” In early May, during
How to Get Involved with Compassion Ministry Without Getting Overwhelmed
I was recently sharing a wonderful Parkside ministry moment with a group of leaders at Resurrection. A girl from a Buddhist family who has been involved in my Bible study