Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
The 25th Anniversary of the Gospel Extravaganza
This post celebrates a Gospel Extravaganza milestone, but the Extravaganza keeps going past this! In 2018 it passed its 30th ANNIVERSARY, and we invite you to join us on the campus of North Central College, Naperville, IL., for the 31st Extravaganza sometime in late … Continue reading
Father Mike Pfleger and Other Gospel Extravaganza Memories
Saturday, January 26, 2013, North Central College: the 25th Anniversary concert of the Gospel Extravaganza, an event I helped start that many years ago. My cell phone went in and out of my pocket all evening, partly because my wife … Continue reading
Remembering London – Part 4: Nationalism and Cheese
At the northeast end of Hyde Park is Speakers’ Corner where on Sunday afternoons an assortment of crazies and true believers hold forth in exercises of free speech. The British cherish these as symbols of their democracy, even as they … Continue reading