From my Dad's 1972 reflections on 22 years of ministry.

“From the southern suburbs, we were called to the northside of Chicago by an old congregation now in a community of economic and ethnic change, experiencing the departure of their young marrieds to the suburbs. It was a great ministry! We held our own as a congregation. We were among the initial founders of the North Side Cooperative Ministry, sixteen congregations representing eight communions, coming together to strengthen each other and to engage in ministry to the immediate community and world. This was the period when it seems everything happened in the nation. The Washington March. Selma. The assassinations. The west side burning. The Vietnam War. The coming of age of a new generation who in so many ways were trying to practice what the church preached! The parson was reminded once again that the Gospel pertains not only to personal history, but to the whole gamut of human history and particularly the historical “now”.”