Lynn Japinga is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell while he is on sabbatical.  She is a religion professor at Hope College and writes about recent RCA

From Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell Lynn Japinga is substituting for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell while he is on sabbatical.  She teaches religion at Hope College and writes about the

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

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

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

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

Averagely scrumptious. Tolerably ravishing. Mediocrely luxurious. Do such phrases make sense you? How about “common grace.” A bit oxymoronic, perhaps? Is grace ever common and

We all believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that there is a single and simple spiritual being, whom we call God— Eternal

How’s that for a title to appeal to your prurient interests? Actually, and to my own embarrassment, I once uttered those words. More on that