Several years ago–at the end of some heated meeting or other—a colleague told me that I reminded him of Pat Summitt.  He definitely did not

I once heard a speech by my friend, Katherine Paterson, the extraordinary children’s writer, in which she argued that “the consolation of the imagination is not imaginary

I’m back today and was ready to blog, but I got a better offer.  My dear friend and colleague, Jane Zwart, was Calvin’s commencement speaker

We had an absolutely gorgeous weekend here in West Michigan–and that’s not simply because of the Festival of Faith and Writing! No, the weather–in contrast

My good friend and colleague, Debra Rienstra, and I have already used our blogs in the recent past to talk about our excitement about the

Last Friday night as I was driving along, someone decided that he needed to slam into my car and then speed away. Totally senseless. Not

As I write this, it’s primary election day in Michigan.  I’ve been planning on writing about politics and civility and models of that that I’ve

I was actually planning on writing a post today, but I kept hearing about the prayer my dear friend and colleague, Jane Zwart, had offered at

I’ve never been a fan of the poem, “Footprints.” In fact, that’s an understatement. Any of my students reading this today will no doubt laugh