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During the past two years, I’ve traveled internationally quite extensively, focused on issues related to extreme poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and war. I met many heroes, men, and women serving sacrificially on behalf of people who are suffering. I was…
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Tags: AIDS, art, beauty, Children, church, close friends, Community, discipline, engagement, extreme poverty, faith, Family, friend, Gender, Global, global relationships, God, grief, healing, Health, hiv aids, husband, illness, inner circle, International, intimate relationships, loving God, lynne hybels, major surgery, medical care, mentor, mother, Poverty, pray, Prayer, present, relationship, remission, serving, sin, vengeance, Violence, Willow Creek, Women, writing
Just say it: Feliz…Feliz. Navidad…Navidad.
My husband Bill was receiving his first Spanish lesson — in front of five thousand Spanish-speaking Chicagoans filling the Willow Creek auditorium. This is the first year our church offered one of our repeated Christmas services…
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Tags: America, border, casa de luz, Chicago, christmas sermon, church, class, Community, complexity, culture, Emmanuel, English, faith, Families, Family, food, God, History, husband, immigrants, Immigration, immigration reform, Mexico, Migrants, navidad, pastor, Poverty, Privilege, Race, Scripture, sermon, service, undocumented immigrants, Willow Creek
I refuse to write a blog about how overwhelmed I am by the holiday season. I’m not going to wax eloquent about how the season I loved most as a child has become the source of excruciating stress. I’ll not…
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Tags: Advent, c s lewis, Christ, Christmas, christmas decorations, christmas tree, church, Community, cooking, dietrich bonhoeffer, engagement, extended family, Family, Holiday, holiday season, living wage, mental energy, Messiah, mother, Music, parent, peace, Poor, public humiliation, Reflection, rich, snow, Thomas Merton, travel, Willow Creek, worthy cause
 When it comes to Israel/Palestine, the human story often gets lost in the confusion of ideology and politics. Let me just highlight the story of one woman, a wife and mother named Isme. Prior to October 12, 2009, Isme lived…
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Tags: building permits, bulldozers, Children, christine anderson, demolition, eviction, Family, fear, husband, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, mother, Palestine, Palestinians, parent, photos, police, policemen, Politics, UN, wife
Nearly five years ago my friends, Hector and Gabby and their five kids, entered the U.S. legally from Mexico in order to join the pastoral staff at my church, Willow Creek. They have built a vibrant ministry with Spanish speaking…
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Tags: America, American, biblical perspective, biblical principles, Bill Hybels, Christ, church leaders, Community, community perspectives, comprehensive immigration reform, Congress, congressional testimony, culture, different culture, dignity, Economic, Egypt, embrace, English, Ephesians, ephesians 2, Faith-based, Families, George Washington, Global, History, human, husband, Immigrant, Immigration, immigration reform, immigration system, Jesus, kingdom, leaders, Leviticus, leviticus 19, Luke, lynne hybels, Matthew, Matthew 25, Migrants, neighbor, New Testament, old testament, oppressed, Parable, Politics, Race, Religion, religions, Religious Freedom, Samaritan, Scripture, senate judiciary subcommittee, Sojourners, solidarity, Story, stranger, Washington, Willow Creek
A year ago I became haunted by the notion that Christians, Muslims, and Jews are going to blow up the world unless we learn to get along. I wished — well, actually, I prayed — that I might become part…
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Tags: Arab, Arab Christians, Christian, Egypt, engagement, Gaza, Holy Land, Israel, Israeli, Jesus, Jew, Jews, Middle East, Muslim, nonviolent resistance, Palestine, Palestinians, philip rizk, President Obama, Violence
In 2001, my husband Bill was jolted out of racial complacency. Through books he read and conversations he had with African-American pastors, he was broken by the reality of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. He describes it as having…
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Tags: African, african america, American, Bill Hybels, church, church leadership, Diversity, Evangelism, history of slavery, justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, pastors, racial, racial diversity, racial injustice, Racial Reconciliation, Racism, Slavery, systemic injustice, White, Willow Creek
In October I spent a week in Amman, Jordan, listening to Arab Christians from Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt. While I reflected on their stories of persecution and pain, I found myself asking the same question I asked myself six years…
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While my friend, Christine, sent me iPhone photos of the thousands of ecstatic Chicagoans she partied with last night in Grant Park, I pondered what I would write to you this morning. As a pastor’s wife, a mother, grandmother, and…
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