Brent House

I attended Ozomatli’s concert at House of Blues on Friday night.  These guys are amazing, playing songs full of life and energy and love with an awareness of the need to struggle against injustice.  I’m a huge fan. What struck me was the way the show felt like church, at least the way I long [...]

Tags: church, Ozomatli

Here’s another recently-found bit of student writing, this time Beverly Lau’s thoughts on finding Brent House: Someone told me one time, “I’m glad you found Brent House.”  And I  told him, “No, I’m glad Stacy found me.”  I would not have known about Brent House were it not for Stacy’s tabling at the Graduate Student [...]

I’ve spent the week digging through the piles on my desk and found Laura Eberly’s reflection on her baptism at the Easter Vigil two years ago.  (I’ll keep posting other student writings as I find them!): Baptism.  After months of catechism mentoring, agonizing questions, Lenten discipline and fervent prayer, it is Easter vigil and I [...]

Just had to share the Maroon’s coverage of the Westboro Baptist counter events, partly because Brent House’s chaplain was “this priest” dancing with Rabbi Gelfarb.  (Actually, I had to convince her!) http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2009/3/10/westboro-church-protest-meets-students-mocking

Jake Bitner was invited to give a reflection at Lenten service of Benediction at the Church of the Atonement this past Friday: Lenten Meditation at Atonement, 13 March 2009 How is it possible?  How can God be present to us in bread and wine?  The Lord God–Immortal, Invisible, Omnipotent, and Omniscient—self-revealing in a wafer of [...]