Author: The Rev. E. Suzanne Wille

Dear Friends, In less than two weeks we have lost remarkable people to death—Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Wendell Berry, and Gloria Steinem. Though spanning music, theater, movies, philanthropy, essay and […]Read more “Remarkable People”

Dear Friends, Are you ready to wade in the water this fall at All Saints? We’re inviting every person to choose ways to go deeper in faith, deeper in community […]Read more “Wade in the Water this Fall”

Dear Friends, We are on the cusp of endings and beginnings as we feel summer coming to a close (did we get a real summer in Chicago this year!?), school […]Read more “Endings and Beginnings”

Dear Friends, This Sunday we have a hard Gospel, the kind that tests people’s faith and that preachers would rather skip. A Canaanite woman comes to Jesus seeking healing for […]Read more “Join a Small Group this Fall”

Dear Friends, If you’ve got Bible-reading friends, it is not uncommon when you’re feeling harassed and harried by life to be reminded that even Jesus took time to go away […]Read more “Finding rest and care.”

Dear Friends, We’ve been saying for the past year that we are in the “Year of Experimentation,” trying things to see what works for our community, whether new small groups, […]Read more “Trying something new.”

Dear Friends, In the midst of our hot—now cool?—and smoky summer, when our climate crisis and El Niño have marred our ability to be outside in the glories of God’s […]Read more “Parables are wonderfully tricky literature”

Dear Friends, I have need of confession. I have allowed anger free rein lately. I have judged others harshly. I have made liberal use of four-letter words. Clearly, this is […]Read more “I have a confession”

Dear Friends, Some of you know that we own the three-flat just south of the church (4546 N. Hermitage) and next to the rectory where Tracey and I live. If […]Read more “Refugia in Ordinary Time”

Dear Friends, I have been thinking a lot about how rightly to observe our Semiquincentennial as a nation. I remember our Bicentennial clearly, though I was only six in 1976. […]Read more “The complexity of our reality and our dreams”

Dear friends, As we slide into the last weekend of June, the month of Pride, many are planning their outfits and day for the crowning event in Chicago, Sunday’s Pride […]Read more “Welcome and care are the standard”

Dear friends, It is good to be back with you after being away on vacation, and I look forward to seeing you this Sunday! We had a great time in […]Read more “A bouillabaisse of experiences”

Dear Friends,  The past and memory fascinate us; so much of literature, art, and history is about how we can or should remember and honor the past. Psychology and anthropology […]Read more “We Remember”

Dear Friends,  Unbelievably enough, this Sunday is the last Sunday of Easter. I don’t know about you, but I have been loving so much about these Sundays—the flowers and the […]Read more “Last Sunday of Easter”