Maybe it was the little chapel she’d insisted on showing me, a place she thought any visit to the Northern Cheyenne mission wouldn’t be complete

What was the best book you read this year?  Mine was Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I listened to the author read it, actually

What to say at the end of this extraordinary year? So far, I’m most persuaded by the words of Clarke Smith, age 9, of Beverly

We’ve all heard so many jokes and cracks about 2020. It can’t end too soon. And behind the jokes are deep sorrow and outrage. At

On occasion my sermons take the form of “Tales from New Heidelberg” — stories centered around Pastor Branderhorst and old First Reformed Church in New

In a previous post, I wrote about my conviction that the future of the church in on the margins. Referencing an essay by Steve Toshio

I forgot to buy a box of Queen Anne’s cordial cherries this year. I didn’t realize it until the week before Christmas, and by then

For this Christmas Day 2020 I offer this meditation/sermon from Luke 1:26-38: Those of us who are parents, grandparents, uncles, or aunts all know what