Left Justified: Peace prayer July 18 at Anderson Gardens

By Stanley Campbell Rockford is a praying community. We have, so far, more houses of worship than bars (the liquor
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July 11, 2012 | Also published in Left Justified> Online Exclusives | Comments (0)

Left Justified: 50 years of Rockford Urban Ministries

By Stanley Campbell When I visited Brazil oh so many years ago, my little group of United Methodists met with
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June 20, 2012 | Also published in Left Justified> Online Exclusives | 1 Comment

Left Justified: RUM’s 50th anniversary dinner June 22

By Stanley Campbell I’m inviting the most liberal bishop in Christendom to be our speaker for Rockford Urban Ministries’ (RUM)
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June 13, 2012 | Also published in Left Justified> Online Exclusives | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Memorial Day Parade: Where are the Afghan/Iraq vets?

By Stanley Campbell I, like many Rockfordians, enjoyed this year’s annual Memorial Day Parade, since it begins right outside my
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May 30, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Save our state parks

By Stanley Campbell Here’s a blatant attempt at getting you to support a fee for you to pay as you
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May 23, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Rockford Urban Ministries is 50, part two

By Stanley Campbell As I said last week, Rockford Urban Ministries (for which I work) is celebrating 50 years of
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May 16, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: 50 years of Rockford Urban Ministries celebrated May 24

By Stanley Campbell In 1962, the United Methodists hired a prophet to run Rockford Urban Ministries (RUM). The Rev. Edsel
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May 9, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Earth Day remembrance of Rod Myers

By Stanley Campbell I hate hospitals. Let me rephrase that. I dislike going into hospitals, even to visit sick friends. So,
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April 18, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: The stomach and your soul

By Stanley Campbell “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” or at least that’s what I was told.
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April 11, 2012 | Also published in Left Justified> Online Exclusives | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Summer thoughts in springtime

By Stanley Campbell Steve Stadelman won!? How did that newcomer beat two well-known Democrat candidates for State Senate? I heard a
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March 28, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Easter is early this year

By Stanley Campbell Besides the extremely wonderful warm weather (a friend suggests that if this is global warming, “Bring it on!”),
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March 21, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Improving poor neighborhoods

By Stanley Campbell When somebody doesn’t like their neighbor, they can up and leave, not only because this is a free
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March 14, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Election time blues

By Stanley Campbell As the director of a nonprofit organization, I can’t make political endorsements of any candidates, which is too
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March 7, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Congressman Manzullo is a liberal

By Stanley Campbell Don Manzullo is running against a conservative whippersnapper in his first primary challenge. Don has been representing Illinois’
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February 29, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: Give up war for Lent

By Stanley Campbell The United States loves war. If the dictum “Wheresoever your treasure lies, there is your heart” is true,
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February 22, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Returned Peace Corps posters at JustGoods

By Stanley Campbell Most of you have heard of the Peace Corps and know I am a big fan. I’d like
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February 8, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Candidates forum Jan. 31 at Unitarian Universalist Church

By Stanley Campbell It’s not too often we get to look a candidate in the face and ask them a question.
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January 25, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Happy Martin Luther King Day!

By Stanley Campbell Rockford Urban Ministries (for which I work) will be celebrating 50 years of service to the city. RUM (as
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January 11, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified> Online Exclusives | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Occupy Rockford — part two

By Stanley Campbell When the local Tea Party leader wrote that tirade against me, it opened a wound. (See “Guest Column:
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January 4, 2012 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: New Year’s resolutions: I resolve …

By Stanley Campbell Let’s suppose that the Mayan Indians are correct: 2012 will be the last year of existence for this
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December 28, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Christmas miracle on Seventh Street

By Stanley Campbell It’s kind of a miracle, JustGoods Fair Trade Store. Rockford Urban Ministries (for which I work) did not
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December 21, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Rockford gets two congressmen

By Stanley Campbell The boys in Springfield gerrymandered Rockford into two congressional districts, which, I think, will give us a little
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December 14, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: A Christmas wish list

By Stanley Campbell We old bachelors rarely get what we want for Christmas. No. 1 reason is that we don’t tell
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December 7, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Peace activist hero Kathy Kelly in Rockford Dec. 9

By Stanley Campbell One of my heroes is coming to Rockford. Kathy Kelly is a Catholic worker and school teacher from
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November 30, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Christmas 2011: Birth of a new tradition

By Stanley Campbell Every year about this time, I give suggestions for holiday shopping that won’t hurt anyone. This year, I
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November 23, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: How to mix Interfaith, Turkey Day and immigration together?

By Stanley Campbell My last column spoke in favor of opening the flood gates and letting in all who wish to
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November 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Immigrants are people, too!

By Stanley Campbell America should share the benefits of life, liberty and “happiness pursuing” with the rest of the world. But
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November 9, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 4 Comments

Left Justified: The sheriff’s fishing hole

By Stanley Campbell A number of friends asked for an explanation of my remarks about the Forest Preserve. “Didn’t you
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November 2, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 3 Comments

Left Justified: Occupy Rockford featured at Nov. 7 event

By Stanley Campbell Wasn’t it amazing how swiftly this “occupation” movement swept over the country? Fox News is still trying
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October 26, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 8 Comments

Left Justified: Five years of selling fairly

By Stanley Campbell JustGoods fair trade store is celebrating its fifth year this Thursday, Oct. 27, beginning at 7 p.m. You
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October 19, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: 25 years walking against hunger

By Stanley Campbell I know you are just itchin’ to stretch those legs again. This Sunday, Oct. 16, the 25th Rockford
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October 12, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Sierra Club invites you!

By Stanley Campbell Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been protecting the environment of wild places, communities and the planet itself.
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September 28, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: 50 years of the Peace Corps

By Stanley Campbell If you think you’ve seen this before, you are correct. I helped celebrate Rockford-area Peace Corps “returnees” (volunteers
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September 14, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: 9/11 10th anniversary: Healing each other

By Stanley Campbell It’s been 10 years since the atrocities committed on Sept. 11, 2001. It’s been 10 years since many
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September 7, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Protest 10 years of Afghan war

By Stanley Campbell It’s been 10 years since our troops invaded Afghanistan. The U.S., under Commander-In-Chief George W. Bush, sent
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August 24, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Killing in Christ’s name

By Stanley Campbell Got some responses about my “Christian extremist” comments in my last column. I’d written “when I heard about the
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August 17, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Summer thoughts

By Stanley Campbell Being a mishmash of summer cogitations while hiding out from the heat. You can start laying your money down
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August 3, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Thanks for the work!

By Stanley Campbell Let me put on my official Rockford Urban Ministries (RUM) hat and thank Rockford’s Human Services Department and
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July 27, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Illinois Green Party looks at nuclear power

By Stanley Campbell I got invited to talk to the Illinois Green Party this Saturday, July 16, beginning 2 p.m. at
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July 13, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 4 Comments

Left Justified: Without governor’s veto, Illinois will be a gambler’s paradise

By Stanley Campbell I think the governor will go against his promise and sign the gambling bill, unless there is an
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June 29, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: The death penalty as the ultimate mistake

By Stanley Campbell Remember Henry Fonda in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Wrong Man? The film is based on a
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June 15, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Here comes the casino!

By Stanley Campbell Unless Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) vetoes the latest legislation allowing five new casinos, Illinois will become a
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June 8, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Another memorable Memorial Day

By Stanley Campbell Memorials to the war dead are too prolific. Not that our guys (and gals) don’t deserve them. Oh
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May 25, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: A blessing for the Rockford Urban Ministries’ Office

By Stanley Campbell I’ve lived and worked on Seventh Street since 1993, and am blessed to have a job I enjoy
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May 18, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 1 Comment

Left Justified: Interfaith Film Festival set for May 11-15

By Stanley Campbell Allow me a bit of self-promotion. Really, it isn’t for myself, but for an organization I helped found
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May 11, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Spring has sprung, where’s da flowers?

By Stanley Campbell Nothing like the first snow of spring to prove Rockford weather. And we might need a blizzard to
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May 4, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Approval of civil unions

By Stanley Campbell I’ve said it before—I can’t imagine making love to a man. To me, that is not appealing. I’m
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April 27, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: The Peace Corps in Rockford

By Stanley Campbell About 50 Peace Corps returned volunteers live in the Rockford area. Most are involved in teaching and the
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April 6, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)

Left Justified: Nuclear power accidents do happen

By Stanley Campbell The nuclear power industry was rising like a Frankenstein monster, refusing to die. Then, the earthquake and tsunami
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March 30, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | 2 Comments

Left Justified: Honoring the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary

By Stanley Campbell Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps to encourage young Americans to help the world.
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March 16, 2011 | Also published in Commentary> Left Justified | Comments (0)


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