Like humanity, nature bears God’s imprint and likeness. It can never be a mere play-thing at the total and utter discretionary use of humans. Instead, we humans are a part of God’s creation as a whole. more

On Sunday, Protestants for the Common Good celebrated its 15th anniversary with an event at St. Pauls UCC in Lincoln Park. Keynote speaker and PCG board member, Chris Gamwell, offered a vision of PCG as it looks forward to another 15 years of advocacy and education. We invite you to share in that vision by reading Chris Gamwell’s words… more

John Bouman was named president of the Shriver Center effective January 1, 2007. He also remains the Shriver Center’s director of advocacy, his position since 1996. Under his helm, the Shriver Center was named a 2010 MacArthur Foundation Creative and Effective Institution. more

This week, amid news of political debates, two death row executions, mass graves in Libya, plummeting stocks, and hand-wringing from the General Assembly of the United Nations, I found myself standing in a crowd in downtown Chicago listening to the words of the rapper and political/social critic, Mos Def in his song, Life in Marvelous Times… more

On Sunday, I witnessed an arrest. I had just returned to Chicago from a trip to St. Louis and the heat in the city was blistering. My apartment does not have air conditioning, and, with a heat index in the triple digits, I decided to take my dog down for a walk on the shore so that we could both find some relief in the coolness of the lake breeze. As I rounded the corner of my building, I saw blue lights in the alley—lots of blue lights. more

Last Friday, June 17, 2011, marked the 40th Anniversary of the War on Drugs, a term first coined by President Richard Nixon on June 17, 1971. Protestants for the Common Good worked with a number of other organizations in the Chicago area to sponsor a rally calling for an end to this failed initiative. more