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On 9/11 last year I was living in the Hague, Netherlands and serving a congregation founded several decades ago by Reformed Church in America pastors.
On March 18, 2002, the sanctuary of the St. Michael Catholic Church was destroyed by fire. St. Michael is a Roman Catholic church in Wheaton,
Tell me, why do we send the ushers around with offering baskets during worship – when most members have already given electronically, either through automatic
“Regret,” says author Brené Brown, “is a tough but fair teacher.” The idea, she writes, is that regret gives us the opportunity to grow, to
I have new respect for interim pastors. More often, these days, they’re called transitional pastors, but whatever we call them, I now see in a
My first-ever sermon feedback came from my wife on a Saturday afternoon in Iowa City, Iowa. She was sitting in the living room of our
I retired a few years ago, said goodbye to my last congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, moved to Holland, Michigan, and started a new life. I
I am an American who happens to have a Dutch last name. That’s one of the surprising things I’ve learned while living in The Hague
Nearly ten years ago, I traveled to South Africa with a dozen or so members of the church I was serving at the time. Several
