Craig’s Blog

I spent Sunday in a congregational meeting at Broadview Community Church, where the congregation decided to dissolve effective October 12, 2025. As...

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...

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...

"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...

It has been a week. Last Tuesday, a new administration entered the government, bringing aggressive immigration reform. Chicago is ground zero. These...

We’re in a delicate historical moment for our denomination. The unification of the Presbytery Mission Agency (PMA) and the Office of General...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

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!...