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  • Introducing...Melissa Stek!

    Melissa is the newest member of the Office of Social Justice team. She joins our team this week as the Justice Mobilization Specialist, and will work to network and encourage justice seekers as they...
    November 20, 2018
  • Nanette: Devastating and Prophetic

    I don’t often have enough time to watch a full-length movie or comedy special. By the time evening rolls around and the kids are in bed, the house is relatively (emphasis on relatively) tidy, garden...
    November 16, 2018
  • To the Woman I Saw Walking to the Highway

    A reflection for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: I saw you first walking out of the hotel parking lot to the highway You had your purse with you and a commitment to go as you zippered...
    November 13, 2018
  • Help Reunite a Syrian Refugee Family

    In August of 2016, we at Loop CRC in Chicago helped support a Syrian refugee family in their move from Jordan to Chicago. It was our small way of living out God's call to love our neighbors and...
    November 9, 2018
  • Introducing...Andrew Oppong!

    Andrew is the newest member of the Office of Social Justice team. He joins our team this week as the Justice Mobilization Specialist, and will work to network and encourage justice as they take next...
    November 7, 2018
  • A New Normal?

    Have you seen one of those glamorous ads promoting a rail trip through the Canadian Rockies? We’ve been talking about planning such a rail vacation for several years and it came together for us this...
    November 2, 2018
  • My Settler Wake-up Calls

    I currently live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the traditional home of the Anishinabe people for thousands of years. I am the daughter of colonizers and settlers, a white, American-born woman on this...
    October 29, 2018
  • Bringing Forth Fruit Worthy of Repentence

    We noticed her standing just inside the front entrance looking up. While she was waiting to load her bus with the summer camp kids, she had stepped into the church foyer and saw the land...
    October 26, 2018
  • Re/Placing Ourselves

    Have you ever seen a tree so large that as you walked towards it you could not see the top and all perspectives of height began to whirl within you? We live in a land that was once covered in trees so...
    October 22, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...
    October 19, 2018