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Christian Community Apologies to LGBT Community at Pride Parade
Started in 2010 by the Marin Foundation, a Chicago non-profit organization that works to increase understanding between LGBT community and churches, the campaign is an activism of love, apologizing to the LGBT community for the way Christians have cause harmed.
Zac Lowing likes to say that he is commiserating with the beat-up and rusty. He is a street photographer who documents the abandoned and unnoticed in obscure places using only his Samsung Galaxy S2. Though he is braver than most when it comes to exploring dark alleys, his most recent commission has him frozen with […]
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By way of skateboards and spicy lattes, a group of entrepreneurial church members has brought a safe haven to Uptown. Citizen Skate Cafe, at 924 W. Wilson Ave., sells skateboarding supplies and fair trade coffee drinks, but it’s also a community gathering spot of sorts. The cherry-red walls house a rack of eccentrically designed skateboards […]
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Shahrukh Hasan, IT coordinator for IQRA International Educational Foundation in Skokie, knows education is important to uplifting a community. As a first generation immigrant from Karachi, Pakistan, he works within the Muslim community to promote religious education. Find out more about him and what he’s doing at IQRA in my Cowbird.
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An American-Islamic group filed a complaint against the city of Des Plaines in federal court Monday, claiming the city violated the group’s right to religious freedom by denying a zoning permit for a new mosque. The American Islamic Center announced the suit at a press conference at the Chicago Office of the Council on American-Islamic […]
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On a hot summer Saturday morning, men gathered from all around the city to attend Ministry ONE Men’s Conference 2013. As men made their way to the sanctuary for the event at Emmanuel Baptist Church, located at 8301 S. Damen Ave., they were greeted and asked to fill out information slips and were given instructions on […]
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Reaching today’s youth is a challenge, especially considering all of the outside forces that are vying for their attention. Rogers W. Jackson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church at 8301 S. Damen Ave., and the author of several books that encourage and offer guidance to men has worked diligently over the years to inform men in Chicago about their purpose […]
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