NOVEMBER 2007: INSIDE OUT These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better

NOVEMBER 2007: POETRY Bird Tired, chest out, she will not leave this morning, a blue fall day among the rainy ones. Maybe she will make

The new weapons “package” and containment strategy that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have been peddling around the

“There’s a future in strenuous wholeness” (Ps. 37:38, The Message) Our natural track is brokenness. Without a strenuous effort in the other direction, we will

The Ten Commandments are ten doors to the heart of God. They have a sequence, a grammar, as a matter of fact. They are not

Thank you very much, brothers and sisters, for the privilege of speaking in your chapel today. I am not a preacher but I want to

OCTOBER 2007: INTERVIEW (Editors’ Note: Few people have left as many fingerprints on the Reformed Church in America in recent decades as I. John Hesselink–seminary

OCTOBER 2007: Tree Rings The once animals from before before, stepping in wet tar. Their eyes rolled back in the museums of clay and black

A nameless man and his son traverse a ruined country that was once the United States, looking for food and shelter and trying to avoid