We thought it would never happen here, but now it is. This is not the way life is supposed to be. Deep down we know

A spring evening, it began to rain. It was the soft rain that lulls one to sleep at night, the kind of rain that reminds

It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before

We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.

“Daddy, are we Christian because you and mommy are Christian? If you were Muslim, would we be Muslim?”

Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!

A heart became available, and a 10-hour transplant surgery began on Memorial Day evening. A month in the hospital following a heart transplant is standard,

We had immigrated to Canada when I took a call to a Reformed Church in America congregation in Ontario.

Much of the data on our readers can be filed under “Everything you think you know is wrong.” I tend to think the same faithful

We should say that the biblical witness regarding anger is complicated. My working theory is that getting good and mad might be exactly what God

Fredrick reflects on the changes he witnessed from the Iowa of his childhood to Iowa now with its massive industrial farms, gutted small towns, and

From this saga we can glean hope’s core ingredient. There are the predictable humility and gratitude but also the less predictable humor, play, and joy.