With this issue of Perspectives we bid a fond adieu to our longtime Poetry Editor, Fran Fike. The name of Francis G. Fike first appeared

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