Craig’s Blog

Celebrating a Journey of Trying

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...

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Engaging in Table Fellowship

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...

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Skunk Works

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...

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2025 Resolution

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...

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Tearing Down to Build Up

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...

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Rethinking Productivity

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...

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Advent Readings for 2024

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....

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Waiting and Anticipating

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...

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This Is My Country

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!...

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