Some years ago when Rob Bell was still pastor at the West Michigan megachurch Mars Hill, a few of my students (among others) noticed that

A week ago today my colleague Dan Meeter posted here about what he regards as recent misappropriations of the Heidelberg Catechism.  Consider this blog as

My fellow blogger Dana VanderLugt posted a thoughtful piece on Saturday titled “No Easy Answers.”   Her post received a number of appreciative comments but when

Few intellectual skills are quite as valuable as the ability to engage in critical thinking.  There is a small array of sub-skills required to be

The month of June begins tomorrow and whatever else this new month might contain, the meeting of the Christian Reformed Synod is prominent in the

We are nine days out from this year’s observance of Ascension Day as this blog appears and that also means we are a full month,

As we have just turned the corner into May, I am recalling where life was two years ago.  Like most people in early May of

My city is on edge.  It began two weeks ago when an early morning traffic stop ended up with the death of a black man

The day after Vladimir Putin launched his immoral and evil war with Ukraine, my daughter posted a meme on Facebook that summarized a scene from