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In an odd, little corner of the world that I sometimes inhabit, people are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of the close of the Synod of
The news that the shooter at the synagogue in Poway, California was a member of an Orthodox Presbyterian Church sent shock waves through the Christian
The most memorable Easter sermon I can recall (it wasn’t mine by the way) used that old chestnut of a song, On a Clear Day,
“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in
San Giuseppe. Saint Joseph. Mary’s husband. Jesus’s supposed father. The patron saint of fathers, carpenters, laborers, of Sicily and Canada. We Reformed folk have always
What does a guy like me, who’s lived a very white life, and who’s not a historian have to offer to Black History Month? Not
“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in
I met Paul Boardman over 30 years ago, when we were both seminarians. The son of Navigator missionaries to Japan, and an alum of Calvin
I would consider myself a Bruce Springsteen fan, not a devotee. Bruce and I were close back in the day. His Born to Run and
