I love high-church liturgy. Smells and bells, processions and litanies, choirs and acolytes—the more the merrier. It might be because of the sere Christian Reformed

Last week (in “Get Out Much?” January 11) Debra Rienstra asked me to weigh in on the question of what might be the appropriate image

Late Advent is usually a time for songs for me. Typically—and in violation of strict church-year protocol—I sneak ahead to steal Christmas carols from their

The tributes and praise for Nelson Mandela have come pouring in, from every corner of the globe and every segment on the political spectrum. For

Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the threshold of recollection is so,

Had a great discussion with faculty colleagues last night about my biography of Abraham Kuyper. Some of the people in the room had been reared

I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of World War I. There’s something

Thanks to Jason Lief for covering for me yesterday. I spent the better part of a week earlier this semester in Amsterdam and it seems

I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy Graham. The festivities opened last