City Grace

Musings of Joel Hamernick on the city, the gospel and the poor. City of joy. City of pain. City of life. City of death. City of neighborhoods. City of nations. Through all things, finding God at work: City Grace.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

New Blog location

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My new blog location is www.joelhamernick.sunshinegospel.org . All content will move there shortly.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Thinking about Social Justice, anti-intellectualism and the gospel.

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I was directed by a friend recently to read a series of blog posts by Kevin DeYoung on his blog at the gospel coalition. Kevin is a guy w...

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

To Change the World?

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This year is the 20th anniversary of The Christian CommunityDevelopment Association . CCDA is one of many Christian groups of folks working...

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

High Standards and Diversity

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Leaders within Evangelical institutions often say to me things like "we want to be more racially diverse, but we just find that our h...

Monday, April 26, 2010

To understand the violence, in part.

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Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And th...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Preaching Social Justice, Requires Preaching Shalom, Requires the Gospel

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The Millenials Generation (1982-2002) of Evangelicals are latching on to the the issues of social justice in a way not seen by their forebea...

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Friday, April 9, 2010

A missing girl and resurrection.

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The call came to me about 9:00 Tuesday night, still in the wake of celebrating Easter. "Joel, it's Sarah. . . Sheneka is missing! ...

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Joel Hamernick: Chicago, IL, United States; I am the husband of Paula (since Dec, 1988!) and the father of 7 kids (5 boys, 2 girls). Jared, Josiah, Caleb, Karissa, Corban, Caden and Kaylie. We live and minister in the historic Southside of Chicago area known as Bronzeville and Woodlawn. I am the executive director of Sunshine Gospel Ministries which provides youth outreach/mentoring, camping for urban youth, a community tech center, and a missions program for college students (Bridgebuilders).

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