More than a year ago already, my uncle Rodney died of cancer. He never had a family of his own, living with his parents until

For many readers, the story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most troubling stories of the Bible. By this point in Abraham’s story,

Every child has a childhood, but some childhoods are not for children. Take the Windshield Wiper children for instance. Every day these boys, ages six

Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, has undergone somewhat of a renaissance in its methodology for teaching biblical Hebrew over the last five years. The

Apparently, “Calvinism” is on the rise among American evangelicals. Whether it’s the “new Calvinism” described in 2009 by Time as one of the “ten ideas

In Part One of this essay I explored “Marilynne Robinson: Distinctive Calvinist.” Here the focus shifts to Marilynne Robinson as a Calvinian. Calvinians are those

Rod Jellema, professor of English emertius at the University of Maryland, has been writing poetry for forty years. This new volume constitutes a selective harvest

It was eight years ago when I first heard this benediction spoken at the conclusion of a worship service. My friend Neal Plantinga and I

“Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status-quo. Because it has been so