We talk a good deal about vocation at Calvin University. It’s a big part of our first-year programing. We have a four-year innovative program called

Sometimes it seems like everything you watch is a variation on a theme; maybe it’s just a season where something stands out more than others.

Tomorrow, October 10, is World Mental Health Day. The initiative, sponsored by the World Health Organization, encourages folks to take “40 seconds of action” to

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

Last week, Diet Eman—whose incredible time in World War II as a member of the Dutch Resistance included rescuing Jews, gathering intelligence, and surviving stints

This morning I met with a large group of my university’s incoming first year students for an orientation session; tomorrow (as you are reading this),

Last week was Wendell Berry’s 85th birthday, so it seems like the right moment to feature a couple of poems from his large output. Berry

There’s an old book by Henry Zylstra, Testament of Vision, that contains a assertion that I come back to again and again: literature should give

Many of you are doubtlessly familiar with Mary Oliver’s “The Summer’s Day”–with its moving invitation to attentiveness and to relishing one’s “one wild and precious