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Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger
A couple nights ago Roger and me from SCUPE went with our Swiss friends to Columbia College for their screening of the new documentary (10 years in the making) about Chicago’s Father Michael Pfleger....
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The Role of Non-violence in Peacemaking
Tuesday night I attended a forum on non-violence held at Columbia College here in Chicago’s loop sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. Notable individuals present on the panel included...
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Silence The Violence Rally
Last Friday a beautiful summer afternoon was suddenly transformed into a brutal Chicago summer storm just hours before a crucial anti-violence rally and march led by Mayor Richard M. Daley and Father...
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Oscar Grant: Murder as Accident
Last January I was in Berkeley taking an urban ministry class entitled “Refuge in the City” with Bishop Yvette Flunder. Earlier that month, January 1st in fact, Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22 year-old...
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Social Justice and Community Development
A partnership between SCUPE and Loyola University combines Social Justice and Community Development into one graduate level program (MASJCD). Susan Rans writes about how SJ and CD are not unusual...
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I Care for Peace 5k Walk
What are you walking for on October 2nd? Why not join the I Care Movement and walk for Peace? The “Do You Care?” campaign was started by 5 interns who worked for the Safety Net Works of Auburn Gresham...
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Speak Life Spoken Word
Another local opportunity has come to my attention for those of you in the Chicago-land area. Speak Life will use poetry and prayer to lift up the epidemic of violence in our city.
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Peacemaking Insight #4 – Bill Wylie-Kellermann
Urban pastor Urban pastor and SCUPE faculty Bill Wylie-Kellermann talks about the Congress on Urban Ministry and how seminary students can get credit for attending through his Congress Course ‘Good...
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Father Michael Pfleger invites you to work for Peace
“Are we going to be a part of raising the consciousness and of bring about the solutions or is the church going to continue to just see itself as doing the benedictions, and doing the eulogies, and...
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Let’s Give It Another Go
The 2011 Hallett Lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 23. Don’t miss out on Father Michael Pfleger and Robert McClory, author of “Radical Disciple: Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and...
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