My wife Jodi has a picture of the two of us dancing at a wedding as the screensaver on her phone. She loves that picture.

For the past month I’ve had the opportunity to chat — or is it snap? — with my daughter Jenna as she journeys along the

My morning commute often takes me by one of the campuses of Family Church, a new, energetic, and growing church in West Michigan. It’s one

This is the last of three days of reflections and reports from delegates to the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, which adjourned

On the twentieth anniversary of September 11, I reflect on the attacks and the current state of the church and world. I am saddened, I

My grandma died early Wednesday morning. It’s okay. We had been waiting, even hoping, for it. Just shy of her 93rd birthday, she had begun

As the sun reached its highpoint for the day, I finished my race. Twenty-three miles and 5000 feet of elevation. I was exhausted from and

Like many pastors, I both enjoy and am embarrassed by the church signs that congregations create to lure in, I mean evangelize, people driving by.

This past Ash Wednesday, I stood outside in the cold waiting for cars to pull into our Covid-safe drive-thru imposition of ashes. There were not