By almost any reckoning, it was a tough summer. Here in the Midwest it was also a very hot, dry summer with seven times more

It may or may not come as a surprise to learn that sometimes when we preachers begin to write a sermon, we do so having

Marilynne Robinson is an instructor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the author of the 1981 novel, Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for

You just never know when Easter will come. Suppose that on January 1 of any given year, someone handed you a brand new calendar. Then

Last fall newly appointed editor James Bratt bid a fond farewell to Roy Anker as Roy completed his term of distinguished service to this journal.

Novels give readers glimpses into lives and experiences different from their own; that is why reading fiction should be an integral part of pastoral ministry.

“Shame on you.” And then he walked away. I am stunned, and something inside me breaks. The people continue to stream out the sanctuary door.

According to a well-known Puritan adage from Joseph Hall, “God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.” It may well be true

The period of “Ordinary Time” makes up the bulk of the church year, and we’re in the midst of it now.  But this past spring,