In early Lent I posted the following as my Facebook status, “I am brimming full of joy!” My liturgically minded friends quickly weighed in: “Well,

One of my earliest sermon memories goes back to the Reformed Church in the Netherlands in 1942. The dominee held forth on the German occupation

It wasn’t a heart attack after all. And how could it be, I wondered, even as the pain grew in my chest like a succubus.

I read “What the Millenialists Have Right” (Perspectives, December 2009) by Richard J. Mouw this morning at breakfast. It got me thinking, which is the

During the heat of the 2008 United States presidential election, journalist Bill Bishop offered a tome that helped explain why the lines of demarcation between

I have James Smith’s Vascular Plant Families open to page 203, Oleaceae: Olive Family. At least ten words are unfamiliar (actinomorphic, androecium, gynoecium, placentation), and

Even before I read Matthew Lundberg’s essay “Tripping over Adverbs” in the February edition of Perspectives, I had planned to write this little reflection for