All Posts By

Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

Loyalty

Lynn Japinga is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell who is on sabbatical. If you are desperate for more information about the RCA’s Synod of 1969, you

Read More »

Stop Shooting

Jeff Japinga is substituting today for Lynn Japinga, who is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell while he is on sabbatical. Jeff serves as associate dean for doctor-of-ministry

Read More »

A People Who (Used to?) Belong …

Jeff Japinga is substituting today for Lynn Japinga, who is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell while he is on sabbatical. Jeff is an ordained RCA minister currently

Read More »
Blog

What Not to Wear

I’ve received a surprising number of links and blogs about how ministers should dress. But the ones I’ve seen have been about street-clothes/civvies. As I

Read More »
Blog

I Need the Eggs

This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,” and uh, the doctor says, “Well why

Read More »

Roadkill

In the spring of 2003, I went to Haiti for the first time with a group from our church. Like almost everyone who visits a

Read More »
Blog

The Times They Are A-Changing

It is one of those hackneyed Christian questions, carrying just enough subtle guilt to fulfill most Christians’ need to feel shamed and inadequate, as well

Read More »