October 31 approaches, the official five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. No doubt Halloween will prove interesting this year, as surely we must all

As a professor of British literature, I consider it my duty to stay up to date on UK television, at least anything involving horses and

This past Monday, I peered into the humming center of the universe. I’m talking about Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. One of my offspring

With all the serious matters of state and planetary survival to worry about these days, it’s time to turn to handicrafts. When I was a

Another summer, another parade of superhero movie releases. Ho hum. Actually, I like superhero movies as much as the next geek, and I’ve gone on

  Sumac and scrubby grass, dense-leaved oaks and maples, jumbles of every possible green. Blue spruce, Douglas fir, white pines, red pines, the astonishing symmetry

“Overdue.” You’ll see that word in almost every review of the new Wonder Woman movie. While Batman and Superman, her DC Comics compadres, have a

This spring, unlike almost every spring for the past twenty-one years, I missed the commencement exercises at Calvin College. However, I did attend two other

With everything going on in the news this week, we might as well come right out and discuss what we’re all thinking about anyway: the