Over the past several years I have had plenty of opportunity to think about disease, pain, suffering, medical science, and faith. Afflicted by colon cancer, I had a colectomy on August 26, 2006. I received a chemotherapy protocol that lasted almost a year, during which I experienced dry mouth, nausea, and rashes and lost hair, […]

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. (Rev. 21:1) The November gathering of the Chicago Council of Religious Leaders convened at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church at the north end of Lakeshore Drive. While we were there, I spent some time […]

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him for us all, how will He not also with him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one […]

In the end, the religiously-charged presidential campaign that many expected never materialized. The economy sidelined the marquee social issues of years past, a relatively secular Republican nominee kept personal faith largely out of discussion, a fiery black church’s theology was addressed in terms of race, and a fiery pre-millennial dispensationalist church was addressed, if at […]

The Rev. Antonio Cabello is pastor of San Esteben Martir (St. Stephen the Martyr), ELCA, 225 S. Kennedy Drive (IL Route 25), a congregation of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod located in the northwest suburb of Carpentersville, Illinois. The people of God at San Esteben gather for the Holy Eucharist on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. in […]

The date was Wednesday, December 12, 2001. I will never forget the day. I was an intern at Trinity Lutheran Church in Canton, Ohio, helping to develop the Hispanic ministry that eventually became a mission congregation of the ELCA. Around 11:30 a.m. a couple walked into our office narthex with a dozen roses. I knew […]