Madison Square Christian Reformed Church, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plays a significant role in the life of the southeast side of that city. Started in

“Homosexuality is a burden that homosexual people are called to bear, and bear as morally as possible, even though they never chose to bear it”

Rick Warren and Jim Wallis are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what James Dobson and John Howard Yoder were to the final

Psalm 85 was likely composed and used in worship after the Israelites came home from their captivity in Babylon. In other words, it is a

“Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming. One moment he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next he was sucked in, washed up, and

I laced up my $100, Allen Iverson inspired basketball shoes and headed out into the bright lights. The huge crowd–it must have been at least

It’s amazing the things a plant will do to try to get more light. I’ve noticed, for example, that where I live–where days on end

“You’re going to love the Heights,” Oshri tells me. “On a clear day, you can see all the way to Iraq.” Oshri and I met

I love the Reformed church as a member, a pastor, and a theologian. I pray that it may have a future. My deeper concern, however,