A friend of mine once commented with some wit about the recovery of liturgical lament. Dryly he asked, “Does this mean that churches will begin

Today’s worship is riddled with polarities. “Traditional” is set against “contemporary.”1 Hymn is set against praise song. The wisdom of professional musicians is juxtaposed with

My father died this past February. After several years of slow decline, he passed away free of pain, surrounded by three generations of family, and

The expansive claim that “our world belongs to God” has long been a central principle undergirding Christian– and especially Reformed Christian– engagement with biological science.

MAY 2006: ESSAY by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches This statement was ratified by the 24th General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed

JULY 2006 What to Do About Wal-Mart? by Todd Steen and Steve VanderVeen Even though eight in ten Americans shop at Wal-Mart, it is one

The institutions of marriage and family have been badly damaged in the last century. But [one] commonly accepted definition of the problem–that “revolutions,” corrupt values,

MAY 2006 Vespers I see my mother’s heart its chambers pumping rhythmically once more. She watches, too, as the sonographer sends short inaudible waves through

“Tyrone Guthrie must be mad.” So whispered the English theater kingdom when, in 1963, the esteemed sweet prince of the London stage founded a theater