Yesterday was Teacher Appreciation Day (don’t worry—you can keep celebrating since the whole week is Teacher Appreciation Week).  And if you’re a teacher, there’s lot

Consider today’s blog a bit of a continuation of Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell’s from yesterday on Christ’s “descent to the dead.”  Frederick Buechner has argued “that we

It’s already 9 days into April, or as the literati like to call it, National Poetry Month.  I hope you’ve been celebrating appropriately—or even inappropriately,

Jennifer L. Holberg is on spring break this week. In her spot today is a guest post from Daniel José Camacho. Daniel is a seminarian hailing

Last November I wrote here about a fabulous movie that told the little-known story of a number of the best back-up singers in the music

Twice today, something popped up in my facebook feed that centered on the idea of home. One (which quoted Maya Angelou) focused on the inescapable

As promised in my last blog, the guest blogger today is my dear friend and colleague Jane Zwart, who teaches in Calvin College’s English Department.

During this long, cold month of January, I’ve spent my time teaching—with my lovely friend and very talented colleague, Jane Zwart—an interim class entitled “Faith

Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Psalm 37:3 The polar vortex last week had me looking at