Survey: Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart

NEW YORK (AP) – The Pew Research Center’s brand new survey on marriage and parenting found that Americans believe that births to unwed women are a big problem for society, and they take a mixed view at best of cohabitation without marriage. Yet these two nontraditional behaviors have become commonplace among younger adults, who have [...]

It’s Almost Tour Time!

As we get close to the Fourth of July, I begin to get excited for the Tour de France, the toughest three weeks in sport. I love to watch the race highlights each night, as the riders cover more than 3, 550 kilometers. The race runs from Saturday July 7th to Sunday July 29th 2007. [...]

iPhone – Is it worth it?

It retails for $500….It has lead to a huge increase in Apple’s stock price since the announcement of the iPhone in January. The hype around Apple Inc.’s upcoming iPhone is abundantly clear. So is the hysteria. But is it worth it? Will the gadget – which triples as a cell phone, iPod media player and [...]

How’s Your Dialogue?

“When it comes to improving performance, most organizations’ problems can be traced to their inability to think and talk together at critical moments.”– Paraphrased from William Isaacs’s book Dialogue, p.3 How do you talk to your staff? How do you conduct a meeting? Do you generally have good dialogue with your staff, first talking, then [...]

Congress: 14% Say Doing a Good Job

(Gallup) In the latest Gallup poll, only 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time [...]

2060 – The End?

This week, a letter from Sir Isaac Newton has gone on show in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, where Newton uses the Bible’s Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse. He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to the recently [...]

Silver Surfer as Christ Figure

Just got home from seeing the latest summer blockbuster, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer that has been brought to the big screen by Stan Lee and 20th Century Fox. It was an excellent movie with incredible special effects and a strong Christ figure in the Silver Surfer. The good story line comes from [...]

Best Restaurant in America? In Chicago, of Course

Where do you think the best restaurant in America is? New York, L.A, San Francisco?…..Nope — It is right ihere in the great city of CHicago. Frontera Grill, chef Rick Bayless’ contemporary Mexican restaurant here in the city,  recently won the James Beard award for the nation’s best restaurant. The awards, presented in New York [...]

Chicago Photo of the Week: Lurie Garden

Chicago is rocking in the summertime — full of great sights, sounds and smells. IMHO, this is the best place to live, work, play and minister. As I roll through life, I often seek out photobloggers who capture the essence of what Chicago is and when I find those photos, I love to just take [...]

Sunday: “Hello My Name is God”

What’s in a Name? Does it really matter what someone calls you? Think about some of the names you’ve been given throughout your life – your birth name, a nickname, or maybe even a bit more creative and far more hurtful name. Names matter to God.Maybe the only thing you know about God’s name is [...]

Family Nights Rock Out!

We had more than 65 adults and kids out for our first family fun night!  It was a great time of community, games, pizaa and friends.  Big thanks to Jeff and Angela Koch, who ran the games and to Sarah Chambers, our in-house resident AWANA games expert….Next week on Wednesday, we are plannnig to separate [...]

Family Fun Nights Start Tonight!

Tonight we start our family fun nights at Park Community Church from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church’s gym in Bucktown, 2012 W. Dickens Ave. Bring your kids each Wednesday night from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. for pizza, games and fun with other families from Park. NO cost or registration required. [...]

My 6 Billion Bits of Data

Today the New York TImes has a story about people who are getting the full text of their DNA on a computer disk. Soon enough, scientists say, we will all be able to decipher our own genomes — the six billion letters of genetic code containing the complete inventory of the traits we inherited from [...]

Let the Festivals Begin!

Park Community Church is committed to encouraging and enabling people stay in the city, to establishing and nurturing families within the city, being role models to our neighbors, and passing on the Gospel to future generations —thus impacting the city of Chicago: one life, one family, one block and one neighborhood at a time. We [...]