My View from the Spy Tree: Living the Social Gospel

A life at the intersection of justice and peace...

Reverend John A. Collins grew up in the all-white Chicago neighborhood that stoned Martin Luther King, Jr. when he led a march for fair housing there in 1966. Yet he was to devote his adult life to the support for racial justice, and as a white clergyman who served Black churches in the inner-city, he was beloved by his parishioners. It was not until his mid-thirties, however, that he found his calling, after having served as a Navy lieutena...