Years ago as I began my ministry, I read a book that exercised a huge influence on me: Taylor Branch’s history of the Civil Rights

Recently my wife and I were among just over 15,000 people in West Michigan who took in one of the six Grand Rapids performances of

Every once in a while you hear a lecture that is not only deeply engaging but is packed with enough information as to cause your

David Timmer’s blog of yesterday put me in mind of Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 and that in turn put me in mind of

This is not a blog about immigration policy.  This is not a blog that will necessarily even inform or speak into deliberations on U.S. border

As I have noted here on the RJ Blog before, my Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary is now part of a

If you know very much about me, then you know that I am a hobby gourmet cook.  Few things are more enjoyable to me than

Last week at Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary we hosted the Symposium on Worship as co-sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and

In the movie Apollo 13, not long after an oxygen tank had exploded on the spacecraft, the computers at Mission Control in Houston were flashing