User Profile

Rev. Rachel Frey (or Rachel Rev, as her housemates call her) is the planter/visionary pastor of Wind of Peace Church, a progessive new church start-up in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood, steps from downtown. In addition, Rachel is a consultant and community organizer for The Interfaith Alliance. So yes, Rachel has, not one, but two jobs, that give her the opportunity to work for justice and to share the news that life - and the world - can be radically different. Rachel is also a musician, a singer/songwriter who enjoys finding ways to wrap up bits of her spirituality and politics into 3-4 minutes of melodic beauty, harmonic transcendence, and groovy guitar licks. Unfortunately, Rachel has only been playing guitar for two years, and she hasn't quite nailed the guitar licks yet. However, she does like writing songs and singing pretty. When not preaching on street corners (Wind of Peace doesn't have a building - or even a congregation - yet), working in the community, or singing about God and the world, Rachel enjoys reading, knitting, peace activism, writing, karaoke, Sudoku, yoga, old bookstores, baseball (she's a lifelong Astros fan), and exploring the Windy City. Rachel holds degrees from Baylor University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Sometimes her arms get tired, and she can't hold them up any longer, and then she has to hang the diplomas on her wall or put them in storage. But she is working on her upper body strength.