“Dr. Japinga, you apologized a lot for the church today.” Every semester in my Christian Feminism class, we have a conversation about the church. A

I asked my students if they experienced any helpful conversations about sexuality in church or youth group. Most said no. They may have learned about

After thirty years of teaching at Hope College, I’ve learned a lot from my students. On woman wrote about reading Romans 16: “I grew up

We played a lot of catch. During the last year of his life, my dad could hear very little, and what he heard, he couldn’t

By Lynn Japinga A strong, confident, brilliant professional woman is at a party, standing with a small group of people. Next to her is an older

God created humankind in God’s image … male and female God created them. Genesis 1:27 by Lynn Japinga It seems so obvious. If all human

2 Samuel 13 by Lynn Japinga Sometimes the Bible tells ugly stories which serve as a mirror to contemporary society, even though three millennia have

By Lynn Japinga Judges 20-21 Last Sunday in this space I told the story of the concubine and the Levite in Judges 19. She was