JANUARY 2012: NOT MY OWN: REFLECTIONON THE HEIDELBERG by Leanne Van Dyk Question 27: What do you understand by the providence of God? Answer: The

JANUARY 2012: INSIDE OUT by Marlin Vis Thus Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day; and all his household, his homeborn

JANUARY 2012: REVIEW by Mitchell Kinsinger WAS AMERICA FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION? A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION JOHN FEA WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS $30.00. 287 PAGES.

JANUARY 2012: REVIEW by Ronald A. Wells CONFESSING HISTORY: EXPLORATIONS IN CHRISTIAN FAITH AND THE HISTORIAN’S VOCATION EDITED BY JOHN FEA, JAY GREEN, AND ERIC

JANUARY 2012: POETRY by Barbara Crooker   The goldenrod’s tarnished and dull, gone to rust, as the Dow Jones plummets like the mercury on a

JANUARY 2012: ESSAY by Brian Porter “One could do worse than be a lover of U2.” So said Howard Schaap in “Music and Politics: U2

JANUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Chad Ray Many Iowa Republicans going to their local caucuses earlier this month faced an interesting question. Those

JANUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Jack R. Van Der Slik In a ham-handed introduction of Rick Perry, Reverend Robert Jeffries crudely raised a

JANUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Jessica Bratt Staring at people and crying are two things New Yorkers typically avoid doing in public. But