Marlin Vis Yad Vashem is located on a hill overlooking a beautiful valley outside Jerusalem. From East Jerusalem to Yad Vashem is a two-hour walk.

William Graddy Yesterday marked the second of what is usually a three-day annual battle at 5259 Wright Terrace between the living and the dead: my

David E. Timmer The cover of Dan Meeter’s e-book features a set of austerely elegant sacramental vessels rudely interrupted by a screaming red fire extinguisher.

Nick Overduin The day I sat down to write this review, there was a photograph in my local newspaper (The Toronto Star) showing a happy

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2013: POETRY by Julia Spicher Kasdorf That town along the tracks where trains no longer stopped had more bars than churches, but everyone kept

Debra L. Freeberg Lutherans are not supposed to panic in public. I was trying not to. Maggie looked so good in February, I was sure

Sue A. Rozeboom In one of his sermons for Advent, Bernard of Clairvaux asks a multiplicity of questions fitting for our anticipation of celebrating again

John P. Tiemstra BELIEVING IN CAPITALISM I like capitalism, I really do. I think it’s a fine economic system, probably the best. It’s way better