Craig’s Blog
Celebrating a Journey of Trying
I spent Sunday in a congregational meeting at Broadview Community Church, where the congregation decided to dissolve effective October 12, 2025. As...
Engaging in Table Fellowship
It was an eventful weekend for the Presbytery of Chicago. We had the revival of LEAD with our newly branded Leadership Conference. The event was...
Books and Curiosity: My Lenten Discipline
Each year at Lent, I read six books over the six weeks. My Lenten discipline is a response to the traditional Lenten fast. Instead of giving up...
Leading Through Chaos and Change
"I didn't see this coming," I said to my brother as we were leaving the hospital after visiting our dad, who'd suffered several incapacitating...
Embracing Life’s Challenges: Finding Meaning amidst the Mountains of Problems
It has been a week. Last Tuesday, a new administration entered the government, bringing aggressive immigration reform. Chicago is ground zero. These...
Skunk Works
We’re in a delicate historical moment for our denomination. The unification of the Presbytery Mission Agency (PMA) and the Office of General...
2025 Resolution
Happy New Year! I’m still struggling to form the words 2025 with my lips! I remember a time in the 1990s when I tried to imagine what the 21st...
Tearing Down to Build Up
While visiting my dad this weekend, I passed by Robert Frost, the junior high school I attended in Hazel Crest, IL, which covered the 7th and 8th...
Rethinking Productivity
I’m intrigued by organizational workflow. I enjoy watching my meal preparation at a fast-food restaurant. I look for efficiency and bottlenecks. The...
Advent Readings for 2024
Advent is a time to be inspired and prepare the soil of the soul for Christ’s arrival. Each Advent, I challenge myself to read one book per week....
Waiting and Anticipating
Advent is the season of waiting. During Advent, we light the candles of hope, faith, joy, and peace on the Advent wreath, and we end with the...
This Is My Country
When I was 16, I was on a track team that did a 30-day European tour. This weekend, I attended the 50-year reunion of the 1975 South Side Striders!...