Faith leaders: City Hall must step up to the plate and provide more funding for violence prevention
Chicago cannot be a great city until it is a safe city. City Hall should not be outsourcing the work of violence reduction.
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Faith leaders: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s public safety plan continues the major mistakes of its predecessors
On Dec. 14, Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration unveiled "The People's Plan for Public Safety" at King-Kennedy College. It marked the third major mayoral presentation of a city plan to mitigate...
Faith leaders: Here’s how we can be peacemakers in Chicago and beyond
New Year's Eve provides those fortunate enough to have lived to see this day an opportunity to reflect on the year that has passed. It does not take a faith...
Faith leaders: Want to invest in Chicago? Take advantage of Small Business Saturday.
This is quite a week for capitalism. Thanksgiving morning, we awoke to the parade sponsored by a department store. During the football games, we saw ads on end for all...
Faith leaders: The subminimum tipped wage and Chicago’s recent robberies are linked to a deeper issue: Poverty
We didn't used to think about robberies and restaurants in the same sentence. Late last month, burglars drove on Lincoln Avenue and in rapid succession robbed Left Coast Food &...
Faith leaders: What if we used the housing crisis to unite rather than further divide Chicagoans?
Fall arrived this past week, and it doesn't take a prophet to predict that winter will arrive soon. And once winter arrives with its frigid weather and subzero nights, it's...
Faith leaders: Religious leaders’ failure to speak up for justice and peace harms our communities
One hundred and thirty years ago, when the World's Columbian Exposition brought millions of people to our hometown and its famed White City, a group of interfaith leaders took advantage...
Rev. Otis Moss III: The Pretrial Fairness Act is constitutional. It’s time for justice to prevail.
In grade school, we were taught that Americans are all "innocent until proven guilty" and that this principle was the foundation of our nation's criminal legal system. Unfortunately, over the...
Faith leaders: The astounding cost of one gunshot in Chicago
What is the cost of a single gunshot? A quick check of Ammo.com — which proclaims itself as the "best source for discount ammo" — tells us we can buy...
Faith leaders: We have the resources, as a city and as houses of worship, to provide for immigrants and youths
Mayor Brandon Johnson feels an affinity for the biblical Joseph. We learned this from a rather personal address he made at an interfaith breakfast before his inauguration: He noted that...