MARCH 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Jared Ayers In the summer of 2008, my wife Monica and I crammed the contents of our house

FEBRUARY 2012: INSIDE OUT by Thom Fiet “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 Trudy Brower prayed for us

FEBRUARY 2012: REVIEW by Terri Martinson Elton Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church Kenda Creasy Dean Oxford University

FEBRUARY 2012: POETRY by Kristina Erny Due to the formatting needs of this month’s poem, it is available as a PDF. Familiar with being an

FEBRUARY 2012: ESSAY by David Zwart A pair of burning wooden shoes! It is probably the most famous— or infamous—cover of the Christian Reformed Church’s

FEBRUARY 2012: ESSAY by Marla Lunderberg When I get near an airport, any airport, any friend’s take-off or return, I celebrate the motion, the rhythms

FEBRUARY 2012: ESSAY by Adam Brooks Webber People eat the darnedest things. Escargot. Haggis. Lutefisk. Cheez Whiz. Our eating shows great diversity—and so does our

FEBRUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Robert Dahl I am filled with disgust and emptiness over the rhythm of everyday life that goes relentlessly

FEBRUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Jason Lief Numerous times I have been asked, “Have you read that book about Metallica going to church?”