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Jesus-Focused Conversations in Occupied Bethlehem

Lynne Hybels — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:30:05 +0000

I arrived in Bethlehem last Sunday evening to speak at a conference called “Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Peace and Justice.” I’m not a theologian or an expert in anything. In fact, it’s likely that I…

Healing Presence

Lynne Hybels — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:13 +0000

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…

From ‘Strangers at Our Gates’ to Brothers and Sisters

Lynne Hybels — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:30:15 +0000

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…

I’ve Done It. I’ve Reclaimed Christmas.

Lynne Hybels — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:30:04 +0000

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…

From Bethlehem: A Human Story

Lynne Hybels — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:59 +0000

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…

Scripture and History Remind Us That We Are All Immigrants

Lynne Hybels — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:36 +0000

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…

A New Conversation in the Holy Land

Lynne Hybels — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:00:15 +0000

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…

Racial Reconciliation: A Necessary Conversion

Lynne Hybels — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:00:59 +0000

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…

Listening and Learning in the Middle East

Lynne Hybels — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:33 +0000

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…

President Obama: Honor Your Call to the Common Good

Lynne Hybels — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:30:57 +0000

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…