Craig’s Blog
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For Memorial Day weekend, I am going to Canada with my daughter on our first Daddy-Daughter trip! I’m excited to spend a few days with my daughter....
Those Answering The Call to Ministry By Ken Hockenberry
So far in 2023 our Presbytery has participated in four Installation Services for Pastors and Associate Pastors – and there are more to come:...
Painting a Beautiful Tomorrow
Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement 2023Pursuing worship, service, and communities of justice, we are the Presbytery of Chicago, flourishing...
Focusing on What We Have In Common
Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement 2023Pursuing worship, service, and communities of justice, we are the Presbytery of Chicago,...
Going Upstream by Craig Howard
Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement 2023: Pursuing worship, service, and communities of justice, we are the Presbytery of Chicago, flourishing...
A Word We Dare Not Speak
Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement 2023Pursuing worship, service, and communities of justice, we are the Presbytery of Chicago, flourishing...
We Are Here
(Friends, my blog today is an excerpt from the sermon I preached at Second Presbyterian on Palm Sunday. It is inspired by my Pilgrimage to...
Flourishing
(This is part 2 of a series on the mission statement of the Presbytery of Chicago)Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement 2023Pursuing worship,...
Always In Pursuit
(This is part 1 of a series on the mission statement of the Presbytery of Chicago) Presbytery of Chicago Mission Statement Pursuing...
Knowing When to Hold Them
At the past Presbytery Assembly I shared a new Mission Statement for the presbytery:Pursuing worship, service, and communities of justice, we...
Listening to One Another
Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28th at 4:00 pm, will be our first Presbytery Assembly of 2023. In my sermon to the presbytery, I look forward to...
Lent 2023
One of the many learnings from the pandemic is that there is a necessary toughness needed to be a pastor or church leader. And it may come...