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Powerful Women in My Life: A Sharecropper’s Daughter, A Nanny, A Prophet/Priest, A Tribal Leader
What these women offered me was not correction from the outside but transformation from the inside. They offered invitation—an invitation to become someone I did not yet know how to be. More self-aware. More centered. More vulnerable.
They helped me see that the goal was never to become a “better man” by the world’s standards. It was to become a more whole human being. And that wholeness required something I had been taught to avoid: the integration of the feminine.
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The revolutionary act of reading together: Why book clubs could save the world
Book clubs are gentle training grounds for something we desperately need: the experience of disagreeing with people we care about, and surviving it.
What is Reformed Theology, Anyway?
Editor’s Note: Following is an excerpt from chapter one, “A Reformed Theology Primer: Misconceptions and Realities,” from Generously Reformed: Theology Rooted Deep and Wide. Slow
What Christian Higher Education Offers That We (Still) Need
From our perspective as faculty at Christian liberal arts institutions, we see the work of Christian higher education as unique and essential. What should set
When the Faucet Runs Dry
Anger has had something of a reputation problem in Christian circles, especially for women. We tend to associate anger with sin. When I was younger,
Where’s Our Belhar?
Belhar did not define unity. It proclaimed it. It reminded the church that Christ had torn down the dividing wall of hostility, and anything that
Seeing First Fruits at Setshabelo Family and Child Services and Other Locations in South Africa
Those of us in the United States look around today and wonder, in the midst of our national struggles, what can we do? One thing
Honor Everyone
When mulling over a topic for my speech, some of the episodes of demeaning treatment that I had learned about over the years came to
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Loving and Leaving American Evangelicalism
The more deeply rooted one is in the evangelical world – in its congregations, conferences, family and friend networks, schools, publishers, book clubs, social media
Practicing the Presence of God: Spiritual Discipline in the Yosemite Public Restrooms
That summer, perhaps more than any other time in my life, I was reminded of God’s presence in a way I still can’t entirely explain.
The Spiritual Practice of Nagging
The bittersweet end of the academic year means waving a fond goodbye to our graduates and wishing them well. It also means a sigh of
Kuyper the Mensch
For me the book’s most intriguing contributions lie in Kuyper’s largely private, lives: as world traveler and mountaineer.
Mom, Are Aliens Real?
Would the presence of intelligent extraterrestrial creatures diminish human dignity or force us to reconsider what it means for us to be created in the
The Mothers We Celebrate and The Ones We Don’t See
For every mother who is being celebrated, there’s another who is deep in grief. For every mother at a family brunch, there’s another who sits
Like Holding a Cup Beneath a Waterfall
We have all the content that we could ever need. It’s not content but context that matters.
“Love of Suffering” — a retreat, a migraine, and a saint
A few weeks ago, I made the drive from Charlottesville to Richmond to spend a couple days at a retreat center in downtown Richmond. This
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Friendship, Sacrifice, and…Astrophysics? Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (Book)
…at the intersection of desperation and hope.
The Outer Edges of Prayer
He declares, “This isn’t / exactly a prayer. It’s more / the unbelieving yelp of prey grabbed suddenly by a wolf . . . .”
God of All Promises: A Poetic Pilgrimage
“I have found possible and useful, in my own practice, to pray back the Bible to God, who dwells therein.”
Salvation, Providence, and the Embodied Gospel in Forevergreen
Through crisp visual effects that combine the feel of claymation and woodcarving, and wordless musical narration that swells at all the right moments to drive
Her Brother Was Falling Apart—She Chose to Stay Anyway
We are our own predicaments, too. Confessing our compulsions to compensate for whatever scripts we have internalized, we expend enormous effort to appear whole and
Discernment in the Digital Age: A review of AI Goes to Church
Todd Korpi’s AI Goes to Church is an engaging resource for Christian leaders exploring the implications of artificial intelligence for their ministry, even as it
History Lessons: Contextualized Faithfulness and Racial Justice
This book thus provided both a challenge and comfort for me, challenging because we readers need to consider how our Buechnerian callings should all involve
John Calvin: Refugee Theologian
Woo’s book arrives at a moment when refugees are at the center of many crises in our world, including here in North America.
Poetry
Broken Balm
Lifedoes not consistofaccumulatingsmall comfortsbutofaccumulatingmany wounds smalland great heldwith patientcare slowly metabolized and given backto thewoundingandwounded worldasbroken balm. You can hear a conversation about this poem
My Lord I Sit Beige and Bubble Wrapped
My Loud I sit beige and bubble-wrapped when all my friends forskae me for jobs …
In the Precincts of the Holy
The room, replete with what is about to happen, is full as well with coughing …
Imagining Iran, March 2026
We have no uncontaminated words for this
Contemplating the Redactions in the Newly Released Epstein Files
The women—I want to say women, but really they were girls …
Podcasts
“Broken Balm” by Alex Arthurs
In this week’s episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma interviews Alex Arthurs about his poem “Broken Balm.” Alex is husband
“My Lord I Sit Beige and Bubble Wrapped” by Alex Mouw
In this week’s episode of Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma talks with Alex Mouw about his poem “My Lord Beige and Bubble Wrapped.” Alex is
“Sowing” by Marjorie Maddox
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma interviews Marjorie Maddox about her poem “Sowing.” Marjorie is Professor Emerita of English and Creative
“In The Precincts of the Holy” by Jerry Harp
In this week’s episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma interviews Jerry Harp about his poem “In The Precincts of the
“Contemplating the Redactions in the Newly Released Epstein Files” by Sara Kay Mooney
In this week’s episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma interviews Sara Kay Mooney about her poem “Contemplating the Redactions in
“The Return of Appetite” by Andy Stager
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Andy Stager about his poem “The Return of Appetite.” Andy